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If good habits of life you would win, 
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Good internal thoughts do always arise, 
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PREFACE. 

The end sought and the motive prompting 
these lines, was, to help those who felt they needed 
more light, on the subject of faith and grace, and 
how to attain them. Spiritual light and love ; or 
faith and grace ; can become the spiritual property 
of every one who desires it ; by going to the Lord 
Jesus Christ direct, for it, and by outwardly re- 
fusing to break His commands. 

To understand the spirit and meaning of th^se 
lines, read them, when you can rid the mind of 
earthly cares, if possible ; and think of the quality 
or substance composing the will and understand- 
ing of Jesus Christ and ask yourself, where did He 
get His desires, opinions, thoughts and deeds, from 
whence were His spiritual endowments; who did 
He think from and speak from. He tells you from 
divine love (the Father) — then ask yourself, 
whose opinions, doctrines or teachings, you are 
thinking and living from — (Are you of Paul, Apol- 
los, Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Campbell or Jesus 



Christ ;J 



Go in thought to Jesus Christ ; think of Him 
as a divine living being, and ask His divine aid, to 
help you understand, spiritual thoughts, when 



presented in a natural language; then watch the 
magical effect of the ideas of this book, upon 
your mind. This book is dedicated, to the only 
man, who ever lived a perfect life, on this earth; 
and He being the mouth piece, and the divine 
spiritual thought, from the divine Father's will, 
could while in the flesh, overcome inherited in- 
clinations to falsity and evil acquired from His 
mother; and prepare a fit human temple for the 
divine mind to dwell in on earth in time, and in 
Heaven to eternity. On account of my gratitude, 
for that which He has done in and for me; for 
assistance rendered in this work; and on account 
of the great love, I hold for Him ; I affectionately 
dedicate, this my first book, to the One I love above 
all others, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Affectionately the Author, 

G. R. WILSON. 



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Nineteen hundred and nine years ago; 
The darkest and coldest mental night 
That ever existed here below; 
A baby was born, of Heaven's light. 

The Heaven's were opened, and bowed to the earth; 
Creator met created, in loving embrace; 
God smiled; a Virgin conceived, and soon gave birth. 
To the blessed saviour of the human race. 

Never was child cradled so lowly; 

Never did manger contain, such life giving food before; 

This was bread, divine, and so Holy; 

Likewise drink, an immortal cordial for the poor. 

A feed trough received Him, symbolic of things 
When in sweet union with Father, our King of Kings, 
Would receive and contain through merit alone, 
All the divine in himself and shine from His Throne. 

God now in his human, is all and in all. 
And to woo and to win us, from temptations fall. 
Sends His own spirit, of love and light. 
That we might have Him our battles fight. 



6 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

This babe from above, very Prince of light, 

To save His children from eternal night. 

And restore the broken images of human creation; 

Degraded Himself, knew sorrow and bled for their salvation. 

O! why should deluded mortal persist. 
In walking in darknes, by looking away, 
From a light shining as brightly as this; 
Seven folds brighter, than the sunniest day. 

And why should the spirit of mortal persist, 
In holding to that which is not for the best; 
Or why should he continue serving the devil 
Knowing full well the destructiveness of evil. 

He came in the likeness of sinful flesh. 
The power of darkness to meet and crush; 
O how we should love Him. and do His will, 
For what Ht has done and is doing still. 

Think of the agony endured, when nailed to the cross of 
wood ; 

Of His life long suffering and sweating of blood, if you only 
could ; 

And He did it all from a love divine, 

That He might plant in earth a saving vine. 

O Heavenly muses, from the inmost spheres above, 
Wing to my soul, your tenderest chords of living love, 
That we may so justly sing of Truth from Good, 
Our God in Christ may be fully understood. 



OR THE VML LIFTED 7 

End, cause and effect, the reflecting mind san see. 
Is like Father, Son and Spirit in unity; 
The end in the cause and both in the effect, we find. 
Love in truth and both producing the new born mind. 

Our Saviour was God and man. He has often said. 
And had all his power, by the Holy Spirit within; 
To save the sinner, heal the sick and raise the dead; 
The flesh only useful for the Divine, to appear in. 

Let us not continue in the cloud of the letter. 
For the glory of the spirit is so much better; 
Let us lift the veil by knowing the Lord aright 
And banish the darkness by letting in the light. 

Self righteousness and that of Christ, from different sources 
arise. 

One a worldly product, the other of the Lord from the skies; 

The mind of the former looks to the West, from defective 
eyesight 

That of the latter is turned to the East for life in the light. 

O! Divine love, creation's potency, where dwellest thou? 
Are you wedded to Divine Truth? Will you answer now? 
You seem to be the life and moving force everywhere; 
More hidden than aura in the ether and the air. 

No response to the question, silence deeper than the grave; 
Eternal stillness; not even an etherial wave 
Brings hope of answer, from this hidden One: 
The word answers, seek divine love in the Son. 



8 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

How inattentive we are, to that which we have heard, 
For it is written and we have seen it in the word ; 
"No man hath seen God." the Father, save only the Son: 
Love is the essence in wisdoms form, they twain make one. 

Love like heat is never seen, but only felt; 
Both are great forces, and each able to melt 
The hardest substances, if only applied right. 
In their different manifesting forms of light. 

The evil and the false within, a hell doth make; 
Such as the natural wordly life, first in us; 
The good and the truth within, from hell doth take, 
By rebirth into the spirit of Christ Jesus. 

To be ashamed of Christ, you hideous shameful thing. 

Your thoughts are sugar coated, and each has a wicked 
sting; 

You dwell in ignorance without, and emptiness within; 
You seem to be good, but you are truly a form of sin. 

Quite impossible it is, another grace to see, 
When to that state of love, we are a total stranger, 
In such case silence would be golden, says charity; 
To hide our shame and place our fame, in far less danger. 

Falsity and evil are the rudder and compass of the lost; 

Though apparently sincere and just, they are not what 

they seem; 
They are as a bark without anchor upon a rough sea 

tossed. 
Sailing on the waters of death in an everlasting dream. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 9 

O Sluggard arise, why sleep any longer, 
The harvest awaits yon, the summer is near, 
Delay and indifference, only holds you the stronger 
In the sleep that endangers your soul so dear. 

The unregenerated in heart and mind. 
Are like a wilderness in a tropical clime. 
Giving pasture to wild beasts of every kind. 
And living in darkness, not deeming it a crime. 

O! sinner we beg you turn from your fearful condition, 

Repent, believe and attain a healthful contrition; 

There is no other way to free the mind and heart, from 

servitude to sin. 
And secure a holier kind of birds and beasts, to fill the 

world within. 

Our deeds whether born of faith or done for appearance 
sake 

Are established by the inward form our motives take 

Therefore let us watch the form and source of every in- 
ward bird. 

And entertain none at all, save those with passports from 
the word. 

Our Savior was a God-man, He has often said. 

And the power in Him was Divine, which He operated 

from; 
To save the sinner, heal the sick and raise the dead; 
The flesh was God's temple He made Divine, and now 

His strong right arm. 



10 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

O! why wait for death to lift the veil, 
, And let evil and darkness prevail; 
When oil is so cheap and for sale only here; 
Tarry no longer, for the Bridegroom is near. 

O Prodigal son, why not return home this New Year, 
To your Heavenly Father, to whom you are so dear; 
The fatted calf awaits you, to give hearty good cheer 
There will be rejoicing if you return, have no fear. 

Three days in the whale was Jonahs plight. 
Significant of our Saviour, entoomed in the earth; 
Until he arose, to take His flight. 
And send to us, the spirit of Heavenly joy and mirth. 

These lines were prompted by love for the neighbor; 
The time given them, was in no sense labor; 
For every work of love, is like a holiday. 
And 'tis sweet to perform, as child work done in play. 

Our Saviour was in the earth. He had made, thirty-three 

years ; 
His visit was of extreme suffering, sorrow and tears; 
He accomplished His purpose and is able to save thee; 
These verses concerning Him are ended, and just thirty* 

three. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED ]1 

^ It is right, and ought to be, the desire of 
everyone, to secure the greatest possible measure 
01 joy and happiness, for himself and dependent 
ones, in this life, and if there is a way, an infallible 
way, of arriving at the state of mind, where all is 
peace, joy and gladness ; that way should be sought 
at any cost. Jesus, says: *'I am the way, the 
truth and the life/' Kind reader if you desire 
to know beyond a doubt, who Jesus Christ is and 
from whose mind the Holy Bible eminated; and 
whether or not, you can be lead out of a life of 
sin — just follow prayerfully and earnestly, the 
ideas given you, in this book; by one, who asked 
and received; sought and found; knocked and it 
was opened unto him. And you will also receive, 
find, and the way will be opened unto you, in this 
life. You possess rationality and liberty, to will 
and think about the divine one or not, just as you 
please. This is indisputable. This possession is 
God-given, and differentiates man from the lower 
order of animals. There would be no need of 
preaching ; sewing the seed of divine truth, if there 
was no rational soil, or good ground for the seed 
to fall upon. If you have not destroyed the re- 
mains of innocence implanted in you, while a child, 
by a life of sin and false opinions ; and if you have 
any desire whatever to know whether or not, the 
soul was made for life-eternal; and that there is 



12 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

a future life for every one; either blessed or un- 
happy ; you can undoubtedly find the way, to that 
certain knowledge, by being willing to sell all your 
possessions, of self derived thoughts and opinions, 
so dear to you, and by taking the Lord's words, as 
to how to be saved. This book will point the way, 
from the Lord's own words, and not from the 
dogmas of man — I Cor. 21-22 "For since by man 
came death, by man came also the resurrection 
of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive"— -If from the fall, 
or lapse, of your forefathers, you are dead, as a 
stock or stone, and do not know the difference be- 
tween good and evil — and cannot hear or be affect- 
ed; nor be made to understand the Lord's words, 
"which are spirit and life ; if that was really true 
you would be an idiot and have no rationality, nor 
freedom of mind, to be acted upon ; you could not 
even look to the Lord for help, and therefore not 
responsible; for where no law is known — no 
obedience could be expected, but my friends, Jesus 
Christ came into the world to redeem mankind ; to 
save sinners and to save us all from idiocy and 
eternal death ; to put hell under better control, and 
to reform and regenrate our wills and under- 
standings ; — to free us from unrighteousness, and 
implant His righteousness within us while we live 
here. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 13 

On account of the weakness of the flesh, the 
law was not able to do for us what Christ could 
do ; and was a schoolmaster to bring the world up 
to a life of grace or love, by faith in the divine 
one. Now it is by grace or love through the means 
of faith, that we are saved — Eph. 2-8 — *Tor by 
grace ye are saved, through faith; and that not 
of yourselves; it is the gift of God/' It is not 
sufficient for you to believe in Christ's merit and 
riches of grace, and for you to expect Him to im- 
pute it to you hereafter on account of your faith 
alone in Him, while you continue living in sin 
and unrighteousness; for the devils believe in 
Christ being righteous and they have faith, with 
out the grace and tremble because of their own 
unrighteousness — He came to us to bring the 
water of life to us, but we must drink. He can't 
drink for us, we must partake of it, or our souls 
will perish. Now, while we are under the law of 
love, that does not free us from keeping the ten 
commandments ; though it does free us from keep- 
ing the old Jewish ceremonial laws, for a righteous 
life embraces the keeping of the words of Christ 
from a love for them — Now if we have a dead 
faith; without the life of faith, which is a love 
in us for keeping Christ's words, we really do not 
believe in Him, nor His words, for unless we keep 
His words we are none of His — What is Christ's 



14 PROM DARKNEISS TO DIGHT 

written mind but the word, the whole word? 
Tell me you believe in Christ, and do not believe 
in His thoughts and His expressed will, which is 
the word spiritually understood— If you do not 
keep Christ's words, it shows you do not love them 
and do not have any faith in them; you neither 
have faith nor love, if you are living a life con- 
trary to His words, for He says: ('*He that hath 
my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is 
that loveth me ;" John 14-21 and again He says : — 
**He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings : 
and the word which ye hear is not mine but the 
Father's which sent me," Showing that the words 
of divine truth ; were eminating from divine love. 
He came to us to save us from a life of sin and 
unrighteousness, and if by believing in Him and 
His way of living, to the extent. He can take up 
His abode in us; that is, if by faith in Him, His 
spirit of grace enter us. He in us can keep His own 
words, even if we are given to feel that we are 
doing the works as of ourselves. When by grace 
or love, through faith you are saved from doing 
evils in your lives, remember you are acting from 
His spirit in you and that you do not keep His 
words from any power of your own independent 
of His spirit of grace in you — but you can keep 
every commandment of Christ, provided you have 
His spirit in you, to act from ; and while you live 



OR THE VEIL LIFTEOD 15 

from the new heart, love or grace, which you re- 
ceive from Christ by regeneration, you cannot 
claim merit for keeping the words of Christ ; for 
it is the spirit of Christ in you doing the works, 
and in such a way you seem to be doing it as of 
your own proper power. Without revelation; 
without the word; we would never have known 
the spirit or mind of God — Christ was born of the 
Holy spirit of God, He was God's spirit or God's 
mind of truth with us — and if His spirit be in 
us, and lead us, verily, are we the sons of God and 
led of God — Now, ''Grace and truth come by Jesus 
Christ," to us to be ours, to be in us and to save us 
from our sins, 'Tor the law was given by Moses, 
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ :" John 
1-17. 

All the word is the spirit of Christ, and it 
was given for, as is said in H Tim. 3-16-7. "All 
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, 
for instruction in righteousness ;'' "That the man 
of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto 
all good works." What would have been the use 
of God's giving us any knowledge of Himself, 
through the written word of the old Testament, 
and through His word made flesh in the New 
Testament ; were it not for the fact that He desired 
to change our hearts from a too dominating love 



16 PROM DAKKNESS TO LIGHT 

of self and the riches and honors of this world; 
and give us better desires and aspirations; more 
intelligence and wisdom; and the better to fit us 
for society on earth, and to prepare us while here 
with the capacity of receiving the light and heat 
of Heaven. And to save us from moulding our 
souls into spiritual forms of hell, by being left to 
ourselves, in the unfortunate affections v/hich we 
received by inheritance from our forefathers who 
damaged themselves and us, by the abuse of their 
God given freedom, which was either, to love God, 
or to turn their affections from God and place 
them upon themselves, which they did, to our 
sorrow and suffering; and made necessary the 
great suffering of our lord Jesus Christ — who 
had to come into the world to mend the breech 
made by the fall of our deluded ancestors. 

'*For since, by man came death, by man came 
also the resurrection of the dead," 1 Cor. 15-21 — 
Now the death here has reference to the death of 
of the soul through sin, for it is the soul which is 
dead in trespasses and sins, which is resurrected 
to newness of life, and to life eternal. The second 
death is here alluded to, and not to the removal 
of the mortal coil, for it was never intended that 
we should be loaded down with the physical body 
to all eternity — Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 44-47 — 'It is 
sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 17 

There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual 
body. And so it is written, The first man Adam 
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made 
made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not 
first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; 
and afterward that which is spiritual. 'The first 
man is of the earth, earthly; the second man is 
the Lord from Heaven,'' another verse from the 
same chapter, says : **And as we have borne the 
image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image 
of the Heavenly hereon earth by the re aewing 
of our lives, by putting on Christ's spirit in our 
daily lives; if not we are none of His, and we 
still bear the image of the earthly ; by living after 
the fiesh, or earthly opinions and desires, of the 
old man, which was supposed to have died, when 
by faith through grace we put on the newness of 
life, of the last Adam which was made a quicken- 
ing spirit. Christ says : ''my words are spirit and 
they are life." John 6-63. It is the spirit that 
quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing ; the words 
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they 
are life. Peter told our Saviour, "Thou hast the 
words of eternal life," Christ said He spake from 
the Father, that He came out of the bosom of the 
Father — Hence, as God is love itself, then the 
spirit of divine truth Christ, came from the divine 
love — as there can be no truth except from love. 



18 FROM CARKXESS TO LIGHT 

as its source — Love and truth divine, is Father 
and Son from eternity — There can be no thought 
except from some desire, even in us; — there can 
be no words without sound ; there can be no effect 
without cause ; no saving faith without charity ; no 
Son without Father, therefore we can understand 
the omnipresent spirit of Christ flowing out, and 
into, our minds and hearts — Much as the heat and 
light of the natural sun above us ; heat and light 
of the natural sun, is the spirit of the sun which 
enlightens our eyes; and divine love and truth 
flowing out of Jesus Christ now, is the spirit that 
warms our hearts and gives the light of divine 
intelligence to our understandings, ''Whom the 
lord loveth He chasteneth and I believe He quick- 
eneth, and He loves those, who love to do His 
will, for they are the ones who love Him, and know 
Him, ''He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth 
not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth 
is not in him," John 2-4 — I would advise my 
readers to stop and turn to the 2nd and 3rd chap- 
ters of 1st John and read them prayerfully, then 
proceed with these lines. This book is written for 
the purpose of helping you from darkness to light. 
To turn you from a trust in the traditions of 
men to a trust in the spirit of divine truth. 
"Little children, let no man deceive you; he that 
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 19 

righteous. He that commiteth sin is of the 
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning'. 
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, 
that he might destroy the works of the devil." 
I John 3-7-8 — The word is from God and is divine 
truth in natural symbols', it has life and light 
giving power in it, *Tor it is the power of God unto 
salvation, to every one that believeth ;" Romans 
1-16. The word is God's power, to show you what 
is the state of your mind and heart, and if it does 
not move you to see your evil state or condition of 
heart and mind, it must be, because it has not 
been taught you in its simplicity, and its truth; 
for to shuffle off the the mortal coil while living in 
one's sins, is a thing too horrible for contempla- 
tion. My friend, if you are living in sin and un- 
righteousness, let me beg of you to come out of it ; 
for an eternity of misery awaits you — By laying 
down a false life; and as you lay it off, you are 
putting on a charmed existence even here in this 
life, by swapping the lusts of the flesh, for the 
life in the divine truth. *lt is not so difficult to 
live the life that leads to Heaven as is commonly 
supposed." God expects you to love yourself and 
the riches and honors of the world ; but not to a 
sinful degree. He wants you to love Him and 
your neighbor, to such an extent that you will not 
break the commandments to get worldly riches 



20 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

for self. He wants you possessed of all the con- 
veniences of life, and he does not want you to live a 
sorrowful life in the physical body. But he wants 
you to love justice and judgment, goodness and 
truth, mercy and forgiveness, honor and right, pu 
rity and innocence for the sake of themselves, be- 
ing your very own life from free choice and inward- 
ly in you, rather than outwardly assumed for pol- 
icy's sake, v^hile inwardly you cherish opposite feel- 
ings. God asks nothing unreasonable of his children 
but every command is given, because they are the 
very laws of life and happiness ; such as an earth- 
ly Father should lay down, for the guidance of his 
children, for the sake of their welfare. Shun evils 
as sins against the Lord, and as against the sound- 
ness, health and welfare of your own soul, here 
and hereafter. Sinner, if you only could realize 
what the death of your soul meant, you would 
stop and think, and endeavor to break the shackles 
of evil, which enslave you, and cause you to rend- 
er allegiance to hell, through your self-love, lusts 
and appetites, blindly followed. There is no power 
to save you but the spirit of Jesus Christ — seek it 
in his Holy word — Be guided by the divine truth. 
Take the very words of the Saviour as they fell 
form His lips, you will find them in the gospels: 
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Let the Lord's 
words be true, and listen to no suggestion that 



OR THE \EIL LIFTEID 21 

may arise in your mind against them; for any 
thought, idea or evil desire that may arise in your 
mind against the Lord's words, you may know 
from whence it came— it is a thought or a sugges- 
tion from the evil one — Make all men liars before 
Jesus Christ; for He was the only man who was 
without spot or blemish, throughout his entire 
earth life. In order to live the true Heavenly life, 
you are not expected to live out of the busy affairs 
of the world, neither are you expected to live a 
melancholy life; nor one spent in continual and 
everlasting pious meditations about God; nor in 
avoiding business, and money making, where it is 
done through diligent, honest and sincere work; 
neither is it expected of you, to spend all your 
time in prayer and the reading of pious books and 
meditating continually about your souls welfare, 
to the damage of your earthly business. What 
He wants is to implant. His spiritual life, as the 
motive power, in your civil and moral life. What 
He wants is, joyous soul forming and life giving 
heart beats, put in motion, by the gentle zephyrs 
wafted from divine loves own domain, to fan the 
fires of real life, upon the altars of your hearts; 
now dead cold and lifeless in trespasses and sins. 
To live the life of sincerity and justice, from a be- 
lief in the divine being and from a love in the 
heart for divine sincerity and justice and out of 



22 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

regard for the divine laws, as well as out of 
regard for the civil and moral laws, is to 
live the spiritual life. The laws of spiritual life, 
civil life and moral life, are all included in the ten 
commandments of the decalogue. Externally, the 
wicked, can for appearance sake, keep the com- 
mandments, when in heart they do not be- 
lieve them they can even become church 
men, and from memory and the external mind, 
go through all the forms of worship, without 
having any real love for God, in their hearts. 
It is different with the spiritual mind and heart, 
which is made alive, by the indwelling spirit of 
Jesus Christ. Now dear reader, whose servant 
are we? 

We are compelled to serve the spirit or the 
flesh; God or the devil, Heaven or hell; good or 
evil which shall it be, the good book says, 
*'Whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey his 
servants ye are whom ye obey'' again; ''Choose 
ye this day whom ye will serve, God or the devil.'* 

It is a matter of eternal life or eternal death, 
which shall it be? God made you free. He will not 
disturb your freedom of will in order to save you. 
It is for you to choose. There is no immediate 
mercy than can save you after the death of the 
body. There never was an angry God, only in 
the mind of a sinner, God never had to be recon- 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 23 

died to His erring children, but He came into the 
world to reconcile the world to Himself. If God 
could by imputation through immediate mercy 
save a man after the death of the body who had 
lived a wicked life, all through his earthly exist- 
ence, He would save every soul, for He is good 
enough; but God has to reach and save you from 
the effect of evil and sin, by reforming and regene- 
rating you while in the fleshy mould, in this life, 
for after this life, in the physical body is over, 
then your spirit is fixed in the form of your lifes 
love and can not be changed without annihila- 
tion — and God will mercifully permit you to fol- 
low your hell bent desires to all eternity before He 
will exterminate entirely one of His creatures — 
Let us think spiritually, there is but one Lord; 
from eternity to eternity the same, and unchange- 
able, God. All changes are made in the creature 
and the created things, God is life itself, and the 
life of every created form in the universe. 

By the lapse of our forefathers, man had 
gotten so lifeless and ignorant, it necessitated our 
God, to manifest himself to the children of men. 
He could not come in the fullness of His glory, 
without our destruction ; hence He had to send or 
embody himself or His effluent spirit of truth, the 
divine sphere eminating from Him, and which 
is His omnipresence — This divine spirit operated 



24 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

within the blood and substance of Mary, took upon 
itself a material body, was the star of Bethlehem, 
whose l^ght became greater and greater as the 
child waxed stronger in spirit — The spiritual 
presence of Jehovah in the man Christ, did not 
prevent His being everywhere else at the same 
time; but it was Jehovah, doing the work in the 
man Christ Jesus ; Christ said so all the time — 
There was a great battle, going on in Christs 
Humanity between His God life, and all the forces 
of hell admitted into the natural humanity to be 
overcome for redemptive purposes. It was God 
being manifested in the flesh ; and when the work 
was finished, and the divine spirit of truth called 
the Son was reunited in full with the divine love, 
called the Father, in the divinely glorious person 
Jesus Christ ; then God the divine love dwelt fully 
one omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient being 
in His natural humanity which He assumed par- 
tially in the world, and more fully, as the man put 
on the di\ine, by laying off the flesh, and the will of 
theflesh; until the last combat against the will 
of the flesh, or hell ; which was that of the death 
of His material part, when all was flnished, Jesus 
Christ in that final act, became fully God as to 
mind and soul and God became fully a divine man, 
and the union was that of soul and body, forming 
the God-man — and the union was not as between 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 25 

two persons at all, but as between a man fitted to 
receive, as His life, infinite love and wisdom, in- 
stead of a finite share of love and wisdom — Christ 
said. He had not the spirit of the infinite by meas- 
ure, but infiintely, that means all. Now our elder 
brother inherited God, with all, that expression 
means. Now who should we pray to, for spiritual 
riches, but the one who possesses it all. 

Now how can we go to God except through 
God's body ; how could I go to you, your soul, ex- 
cept through your body, your ears or eyes. Christ 
says: **Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that 
entereth not by the door into the sheep fold, but 
climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief 
and a robber." — He says : ''I am the vine, ye are 
the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, 
the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without 
me ye can do nothing." 

Now the omnipresent spirit of Jesus Christ 
is the vine; are we in the vine? Now, the spirit 
of the devil is another vine; are we in that vine? 
We are in one or the other. There are only two 
sources of life. The life flowing out of Jesus 
Christ, called good and truth, or the opposite life, 
flowing out of hell, called evil and false — We must 
love and live from one or the other sources — Our 
freedom between good and evil, results from the 
two sources of life. To ascend or descend, not 



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through space, but through degrees of soul life, 
unfolding Heavenly or helhsh life, within the soul. 
''Behold the kingdom of God is within you*' — Luke 
17-21 — Or the kingdom of false notions and evil 
desires, is within you. 

Dear reader, the kingdom which is ruling 
within your soul, is at the same time forming 
your soul into its own likeness. Is your soul form- 
ing for Heaven and eternal happiness, or for eter- 
nal night in a state of hell? Stop, think, for you 
know not the hour when the silver cord of life may 
be loosed; 'Then shall the dust return to the earth 
as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who 
gave it." Listen to the wooing of the Heavenly 
dove. This same spirit of Christ back in the time 
of Isiah — the self same Christ spirit which was 
made flesh and dwelt among us; "Ho, every one 
that thirst eth, come ye to the waters, (Divine 
truths) and he that hath no money; come ye, buy 
and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk (spiritual 
drink) without money, and without price. 
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is 
not bread? and your labor for that which satis- 
fieth not? Harken diligently unto me, and eat 
ye that which is good, and let your soul delight 
itself in fatness.'' Spiritual good, is the Heaven- 
ly bread; spiritual wine and milk, is Heavenly 
drink ; wine is deeper divine truths, milk is easier 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 27 

divine truths — Jesus Christ is the well, which 
contains living waters for our minds. All are 
invited to feed upon His body and His blood — 
Divine good and truth. Why will ye be satisfied 
with worldly ideas and thought only, when 
this life is only a seminary to prepare 
us for eternity. Now let us enter into the 
thoughts, which will tend to unfold the perception, 
or clear viev/ of the unity or oneness existing in 
God the Lord Jesus Christ. It is hard for the un- 
regenerated, or natural mind to understand how 
the one only spiritual being, God could come into 
a physical body, and so glorify that body, by de- 
grees, that it could become an everlasting abode 
for Himself in His higher and fullest degree of 
existence — God is a spiritual being, and it re- 
quires a spiritual mind, to form any just con- 
ception whatever, of the union of divine love and 
wisdom, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
The word is written in a natural language; but 
within that natural language is a spiritual sense, 
not perceived at all by the unregenerate mind. It 
must be spiritually discerned to be understood 
even partially. The Lord had to speak in para- 
bles, and in a natural language, but in such a 
way, that as His children obeyed His words, they 
would by loving his words and thinking them, 
have their understandings opened by the light 



28 FROM DARKNEiSS TO LIGHT 

from His words, that they would begin to see the 
spiritual or Heavenly sense contained in them. 
It is only to the man in Christ, who sees and re- 
ceives, spiritual meat and drink from His words — 
What I mean by the man in Christ, is the man 
who is in Heavenly light, from the word ; derived 
from believing that Christ was divine truth, or 
God's divine spirit, or God's thoughts, op- 
erating in the humanity, born of God as Father, 
and Mary as Mother, which is now the humanity 
or living temple, containing the entire mind of 
God — and united to the one and only God, as body 
and soul; and further derived by living a life of 
obedience to His divine commands, which are laws 
of spiritual life — This believe and do, and your 
understanding will be opened to see wonderful 
things in God's word. Light and new life vdll be 
formed within you. 

If one could but realize that he lives not from 
himself, but from life from God flowing into his 
inmost soul, beyond consciousness; and the in- 
fluent life from God is changed or modified by 
the affectional or inmost form, of the man as it 
enters — Therefore every being manifests the life, 
which is in him, differently from every other per- 
son, on account of a difference of inner soul form, 
or mould. The same living being, who is life its- 
self, flows into all created forms, mineral, vege- 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 2& 

table, animal and man and furnishes the life 
which each dwells in and manifests, according to 
its form and use. A rock, a tree, or an animal 
can not change their natures or inmost forms; it 
is left for man alone, to possess that ability — 
Man having been made in God's image and like- 
ness, with rationality and liberty; so perfectly 
made ; that he seems and feels, that he lives from 
himself instead of from God; and it is hard for 
him to comprehend that God alone is the only 
man, or being, who lives from Himself — To live 
from one self is to be God; that was why Jesus 
Christ said, that it was given Him, to have life 
of Himself; because He was divine love's omni- 
present truth or God's thought, living in the world 
and made flesh and dwelt among us. 

Divine love in divine wisdom is now the 
divine essence, or life, effluent out of God — Man, 
and influent into all created forms. There is 
nothing in existence but the creator and the creat- 
ed forms to manifest His life, in the forms and ac- 
cording to the inmost forms of each. Life is the 
force exhibiting itself in created forms, which 
life itself or God put into existence. Now as I 
said before, man is the only animal or created 
form of life, so created, that he can change his 
very inmost character — On account of his being 
made a rational, free, thinking being ; he possess- 



30 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

es the ability to think with God or against God — 
He can do as God commands or not, just as he 
pleases. He can force himself even to outwardly 
obey God's commands when he would rather in 
his heart do the opposite — On account of his abil- 
ity, to rationally comprehend the laws of life laid 
down in God's book, and his ability to see, that 
to obey them, would be best ; therefore man is re- 
sponsible for his lifes conduct, and will be judged 
according to the deeds done in the body. God's 
thought of an apple tree, with its trunk, branches, 
leaves and fruit is the living principle wrapped 
up in every apple seed and it when planted and is 
grown can not possibly express any other thought 
than that which was enclosed in the seed. 

Jesus Christ, when the unborn babe in his 
mother's womb was the seed of Jehovah God, and 
as He grew up He could manifest nothing but 
what was in Him, and when fully matured and 
ascended to His eternal kingdom, He was the full 
expression oi the one God v/ho was in Him at 
birth, and constantly increasing in God's statue 
until He became the full grown body of Jehovah 
God. The Prince of Peace, was the spirit of 
peace on earth ; but finally He inherited all peace, 
all knowledge, all wisdom, all love, all the divine, 
and became the fulness of the God-head bodily; 
all power in Heaven and earth; and became king 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 31 

if kings and lord of lords; the Alpha and the 
Omega ; the first and the last ; the beginning and 
the end ; the bright and morning star ; the lion of 
the tribe of Juda ; our one and only God and Sav- 
iour Jesus Christ. The first man of Heaven and 
earth. The one and only exalted ruler of the 
universe — The Great High Priest of Heaven and 
earth — Our only God. Little children, should you 
be ashamed of your Heavenly Father ; The rem- 
nant of the house of Isreal, behold your Jehovah, 
and you can well afford to accept Him as He truly 
is the King of the Jews. His kingdom will yet be 
fully set up, in earth, and the church will then be 
known as the New Jerusalem. Read about it in 
the book of Revelation. 

The circumcision of the heart, is the best 
circumcision, and that of the flesh was merely an 
outward sign, like Baptism, to signify the change 
of the state of the will, or heart, and an induction 
into the family or household of God — The second 
coming of our Jehovah, God — who is the Lord 
Jesus Christ — will be, by the opening of the spirit- 
ual meaning of the divine word — where He will be 
seen in the cloud of the letter of the word ; and as 
the kingdom of God is within you — He will come 
next to your conscious and rational understanding 
of Him and you will be conscious of His presence, 
with you and in you. I know what I am talking 



32 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

about. You can repent, and make ready a high- 
way for the blessed spirit of the Master, or you 
can continue in your sinful lives that hell may 
abound, just as you please; but for all that, the 
hour is not far distant when you will pay the 
penalty of your thoughtlessness, and folly, by a 
life in a spiritual state of darkness and torment to 
eternity. I feel like John felt, when trying to 
prepare a way for our God's first entrance into the 
world, and can say ^'Repent ye; for the kingdom 
of Heaven is at hand.'' 

Now is the time, you can know your God 
more perfectly. Now is the time you can ration- 
ally understand His word. Now is the time to 
seek Him, while He, may yet be found, ere it be 
too late; ere *The silver cord be loosed, or the 
golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken 
at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the 
cistern." 

The golden bowl, my friend is your will, 
which is the seat of all your affections, desires and 
emotions, and is called the heart, as there is a 
correspondence between the will or emotional 
heart, and the physical bodily heart. One is the 
minds heart, the other the body's heart. Your 
thought world, is located in that part of the brain, 
called the cerebrum; your will the seat of your 
affections, desires and emotions, is located in that 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 33 

part of the brain called the cerebellum. But it 
takes " both, the cerebrum and the cerebellum 
to make one mind in one person, with one head; 
likewise with the understanding and will. Now 
this book, with its thoughts, carries to you my 
thoughts ; and I am thinking thoughts from God's 
word. You cannot take from my thoughts the 
spirit prompting them, I do not lose my thoughts 
by sending them to you ; I merely share the hap- 
piness of thinking with you, provided they have 
the same effect upon your mind as upon mine. 
You can see clearly that if these words are 
from Christ Jesus, and are His truths in me ; He, 
I and you are in the spirit of them, and living 
them ; I received what I could get from Christ, and 
received them because of a love for them, and 
pass them on to you, in order that you may be in 
the same thoughts of truth, and that you and I 
may be in the spirit of them ; therefore if they are 
divine truths, God's divine truths in us both ; then 
are we not to that extent, in God and God in us. 
You can see the same thing in Christ's words, 
when He speaks about being the divine truth of 
God — God in Him and He in God, and He in us and 
we in Him. Now, according to the same reason- 
ing — Can't the one Jehovah's mind or spirit, 
be sent out like ours, and even more perfectly. 
Jehovah sent a book, the divine word of the old 



34 PRO'M DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

Testament to us — Did He loose, from His mind 
what he sent, is it not His mind with us written 
in the language of a lower order of being's who are 
natural and hence had to be written in their lan- 
guage; but in such a manner, that His higher 
thoughts could be clothed in the expressions or 
form of lower thoughts — A living spiritual 
thought, in the language of mortal natural 
thought. When you catch the spiritual meaning 
of the word, and God's words have an abode in 
you, from a love for them in any measure, you 
have the spirit of God in you to the extent that 
they abide in you, from an affection for them, 
for are they not living in your will or heart from 
choice and causing 3^ou to live differently from, 
what you did before you found them and before 
you loved them. Don't you see how, that if God's 
w^ords abide in us, being spirit and life, they 
cause or move us to live their vray, if we believe 
and trust in them ; and does not God lead us there- 
by ; you can see, if you will ; — how Jehovah being 
one eternal mind, can feed all minds, and He does ; 
but as life. His life, flows into us beyond conscious- 
ness; we being from inheritance in an inverted, 
misshapen state of condition of soul; receive 
the inflowing life from God into broken soul 
images and likenesses; caused by the turning 
away from God, by our misguided and deluded 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 35 

ancestors ; who were once such soulf orms as were 
true and perfect images and likenesses of God. — 
As all the trouble mistakes and unfortunate hor- 
rors of this life with the misery and unhappiness 
entailed here and hereafter, sprang from the con- 
duct, teachings and lives lived, by our ancestors ; 
from being led by blind leaders of the blind, and 
by being foolish enough to take and live, and be 
guided by the traditions of their Fathers ; do you 
blame me for going to the one only man, in whom, 
I felt assured was the divine truth, and was Him- 
self the divine truth; for my guidance, and for 
the true doctrines of faith and life; — instead of 
abiding confidently in a man made creed or written 
articles of faith, — formulated in the dark ages of 
Christianity. I hold to no creed, but Christs own 
words, for my doctrine ; they are sufficient. I do 
not shape God's word to suit any creed, but I 
shape my creed by what the Lord Himself says 
in the books Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — No 
higher criticism, can effect you, if you abide in 
His words and His words abide in you for you will 
have the convincing evidence within you. Speak- 
ing about the higher criticism ; how can a person 
criticise the Holy word from a knowledge of the 
sense of the letter any more than he could judge 
the quality of pecans or English walnuts, who had 
never tasted the kernels of those two nuts, but had 



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36 FROM DARKNESS TO DIGHHT 

only seen the shells from which the kernels had 
been removed; or how could one criticise or 
judge anything until he possessed a knowledge 
of its entire quality from inmost to outmosts. 
Now I tell you that God's word, is a living book ; 
only understood and appreciated by those who 
have had the faith born of love in the will ; where 
they have loved and lived the truths forming 
their faith; to such an extent that they have 
obeyed the divine truths from a sincere affection 
for them. — That is, they have lived from love, the 
life of truth (or Christ) formed within them the 
hope of glory. Now, those know divine laws who 
love and live them, and who put Christ, or the 
divine truth, into loving obedience. Follow the 
teachings of spirit and then you will be able to 
know, that the higher critics, are self deluded, 
and blinded, by their own self derived opinions; 
and were you to listen to them; you would soon 
begin to think that you could learn all about 
Jehovah God, by just going to Harvard or Yale; 
and learning to play tennis, football, base ball and 
golf. The higher criticism, is higher blindness 
and folly, you may rest assured; and if you de- 
sire to prove it; just take Jesus Christ at His 
word, follow Him by loving obedience in your 
lives ; and, if you are not reminded of high school 
folly and ignorance pretty soon after adopting 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 37 

the Lord Jesus Christ, as your only God, and 
Saviour, and teacher; then I am certain you did 
not dispose of all your own self derived riches of 
precious knowledge; but you like the higher 
critics, persist in thinking it possible to arrive at 
a knowledge of God without Revelation through 
mans learning from human reasoning; which is 
as impossible, as it would be for water to run up 
hill. The word of God, is spiritual meat and 
drink to a finite mind, born of God; to one born 
of the spirit. The word is spiritual, has its 
spiritual sense, written in the words which are 
natural; but in such a manner that the spiritual 
truth, or the things of the spirit, are not discerned 
by the unbeliever, who is carnal minded. To 
substantiate and confirm the above, let us note 
what is said in I Cor.-2-14-13 — *'But the natural 
man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God : 
for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he 
know them because they are spiritually dis- 
cerned." Again, ''Which things also we speak, 
not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, 
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing 
spirtual things with spiritual." Again, I Cor. 2- 
12. ''Now we have received, not the spirit of 
the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we 
might know the things that are freely given to us 
of God." Again in same chapter from 4 to 7 



38 PROM DARKISFES'S TO LIGHT 

verses inclusive; — "And my speech and my 
preaching was not with enticing words of man's 
wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of 
power: That your faith should not stand in the 
wisdom of men, but in the power of God. How- 
beit we speak wisdom among them that are per- 
fect : yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the 
princes of this world, that come to naught : But 
we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even 
the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the 
world unto our glory/' 

Now colleges can only turn out men educated 
thoroughly in carnal mindness, and in the sciences 
and knowledges of the natural degree of the hu- 
man mind. All spiritual intelligence and spirit- 
ual wisdom is received from above, by the un- 
folding of the spiritual degrees of the mind ; and 
it is not from a man who may be possessed of all 
worldly knowledge, who can lead you into Heaven- 
ly light but it is from a man who is born of the 
spirit of God, rather than one born into Latin, 
Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics, Geology, astronomy, 
and ancient history. 

Righteousness cometh by faith and grace, 
and that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, 
who is and ever will be, the God man, Jesus 
Christ. Get righteousness not by imputation, 
but actually, as your very own posession to use 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED gg 

here and hereafter, by asking Jesus Christ for it, 
and by believing that He is the possessor of all 
things of the divine love, the Father, as well as 
being Himself the divine truth the Son; for He 
is now united with the Father, as soul and body. 
And Jesus Christ is God and man; or God the 
great spirit dwelling in his divine humanity, 
(called the Son) — Dwelling in His temple, not 
made with hands, but the one which He said, if 
you destroy, I will raise up in three days. One 
God in one person and His name one. 

Go to Jesus Christ for all you need, want or 
desire, approach Him in spirit and in truth; be- 
lieving that when you go to Him you go to God; 
and your prayers will be heard and answered, 
just as certain as you are avoiding evils in your 
life, as sins against Him and His kingdom — Pray 
to Him, for the things of the Father within Him ; 
do not pray to the Father as if the Father was 
separate from Him for His sake; for you can 
receive nothing from the Father except the divine 
truth, the Son, conveys it to you, and moreover 
when you go to the Son, you go to the Father 
also, for divine truth the Son by merit and right- 
eousness united Himself to the Father, the divine 
love, and became the fulness of the God-head 
bodily. Jesus Christ now has all power in 
Heaven and earth. He is the first and the last, and 



40 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

the only Creator, Redeemer and Regenerator to all 
eternity — Now Jesus Christ is the Infinite; and 
since the union, to say Jesus Christ, is the same, 
as to say Jehovah God — There has never been any 
God but one and that one took upon Himself a 
natural humanity and expelled all the natural by 
the power of the divine within it; and now that 
one God dwells in the divine natural human, and 
His omnipresence, is the omnipresent holy spirit, 
or the spirit of Jesus Christ our one God contin- 
ually with us — If you doubt it — Go to Him, be- 
lieve ing Him to be a divine being, and force your- 
self to keep His words, and avoid evils as sins 
against Him and you will find it just as written 
in this book — I do not speak from man's wisdom, 
for I am not overly possessed of it — Not having 
been a college man, puffed up on account of world- 
ly mental possessions, and full of self righteous- 
ness, enough to question Holy truth; or God's 
divine ability, to maintain His word in its purity 
and power among the children of men, to whom 
it was given. Let us not change from one church 
to another, but rather change the church thought, 
where we find it not in accord with the divine 
truth the spirit of, Jesus Christ. Let us not de- 
sire any new sects, nor add any to the list; but 
rather, let us all seek to become more united 
in the divine spirit of holy truth, ever present 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 41 

with US, if it is not consciously present, in us. 
The spirit that is capable of leading us into all 
truth. Our God is able to keep the holy word as it 
was given to us; for it is written in languages 
permitted to become dead languages, in order 
that the word could ever be held in its purity and 
integrity — And it contains its own Heavenly light, 
or the spiritual sense, which can only be received 
by those whom the Lord knows can be kept in it to 
eternity ; for if the light of the word could be seen 
and understood by unregenerate minds, they 
would not love, nor obey the light ; but profane it, 
and fix themselves in a worse condition by having 
known it. It is a law of divine providence not to 
open up to any individual mind more of Heaven's 
light tha ^ne can be, by divine providence, held 
in it to eternity. No one therefore can under- 
stand God's holy word and absolutely hold the 
proof of its divinity ; except the truly regenerated 
will and understanding which is in the spiritual 
sense of the holy word. For the spiritual sense 
is the light of the holy word, in which the angels 
dwell, and saints, in the church on earth. An 
infidel can get no light from God's holy word 
were he to memorize the book from Genesis to 
Revelation; for it has to be spiritually discerned 
or seen and that power is given through genuine 
faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The light 



42 FROM DARKNESS TO LJGHT 

of the higher mathematics is proven only to those 
who understand it ; and some people never know 
its light, from incapicity to receive it ; some from 
not having the time and means to study it ; some 
from not being willing to use the means of getting 
into its light. So it is with God's holy word. 
Men are not willing to follow the words way, and 
do God's will — submit to the conditions required 
to enable them to come into the light of true 
Heavenly wisdom, or the light which shines from 
Jesus Christ, as a Heavenly sun. The greatest 
earthly scientific and scholastic thought cannot 
open to any mind spiritual or Heavenly light; 
nor can they get it from God's word, without ful- 
filling the conditions; which are the very things 
unregenerated scholars prefer not to do. They 
will not go and dispose of their self derived riches 
of the external mind, and become as a little child, 
and believe the Lord's words as He stated them, 
and do the Lord's words. They prefer to get 
up schemes of salvation of their own, or of Cal- 
vin's, Martin Luther's, or some other man's; be- 
cause it is easier to accept. Very few really be- 
lieve that all power in Heaven and earth is in the 
Lord Jesus Christ, for if they did they would 
thoroughly believe that He was really God and the 
only God — whether they understood the D ivine 
Trinity in Him or not — For the Divine Trinity 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 43 

is in Him, and He is the fullness of the God-head 
bodily — ever since the union, or glorification of 
His divine human. If we only reaUzed that our 
thoughts come from being consociated, internally, 
in our affections, with the angels of Heaven or 
devils of hell ; we would not make the good we do 
meritorious, by thinking it was from and of us ; in- 
stead of, from and of the Lord, through our guard- 
ian, or attendant angels. And we would not im- 
pute evil to ourselves, for we would know its 
source — and we would be more likely to shun it. 
Grasp the thought if you will, and it may help you 
to understand your own possibilities; think of 
your external mind as an image of the external 
world and a form capable of receiving all scientific, 
earthly and worldly knowledge; then again think 
of possessing an internal mind the form and image 
of the spiritual world ; capable of being opened by 
the light of Heaven's Son, Jesus Christ, who is 
the lamp of Heaven and is the lamp of the apoca- 
lyptic New Jerusalem — There is in Jesus Christ 
today infinite divine wisdom from His infinite 
divine love. The same divine human, that was 
laid in a manger, in Bethlehem — the lowliest crib 
that ever contained a baby — Significant Symbol — 
placed in a feed trough after His birth ; because 
that glorified humanity was to contain for ever 
infinite divine love and wisdom — He was to con- 



44 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

tain, as a feed trough, every particle of soul food, 
any angel or saint subsisted upon after the glori- 
fication of that human nature — He says so all 
through the word — He was and is the divine 
word — The divine truth — He says, we must eat 
His flesh, — divine good, and drink His blood, 
divine truth — Jno. 6-53-54-56 ''Then Jesus said 
unto them verily, verily I say unto you, except ye 
eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his 
blood, ye have no life in you." ''Whoso eateth my 
flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; 
and I will raise him up at the last day. For my 
my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink in- 
deed." "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh 
my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." Jno. 
6-63. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh 
profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto 
you, they are spirit and they are life." The 
divine love or divine good is symbolized by bread, 
divine good is symbolized by the bread, and the 
divine truth by the wine — Body and blood like- 
wise. Now touching our minds and souls, they 
must feed, and do feed continually, either upon 
the body and blood of the New Testament Jesus 
Christ; or they feed upon the body and blood of 
the devil ; or self and the world, which is the same 
thing. Which do you relish, — which do you feed 
upon in your daily life? Do you believe and think 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 45 

of Jesus Christ as your God? Do you love and 
study His mind as delivered to us in His holy 
book? Do you love Him with all your mind soul 
and strength? Do you love to keep His 
word in your daily life? Do you love to 
study and talk about Him? Upon the answer to 
these questions depends your eternal welfare. 
Are we living from affections or motives Heaven 
born, or do we listen to the promptings of hell? 
Are we guided in our intercourse with our fellow 
men by the will of the spirit, or the will of the 
flesh? *'It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh 
profeteth nothing,"towards opening up Heavenly 
life within us. My friends, shall we live con- 
sociated in our hearts with angels or devils, while 
we are on earth and forming our affectional 
nature? That is the question that should con- 
cern us right now. There is no doubt in my mind, 
that we are internally consociated with a society, 
either of angels or devils, and were we to die we 
would gravitate to that very society. Now we can 
change our internal or inmost affections, by faith 
and the life of faith, which is grace ; and by going 
to our Lord God Jesus Christ for both, as they 
are the gift of God and He is God. Then do you 
not suppose your inward affections, or spiritual 
companions, or conscioations are changed; after 
He places guardian angels over us, lest our feet 



46 PROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

dash against a stone. Do you not suppose when 
we are placed in company with angels, inwardly, 
that we are removed from the society of devils 
within, or dark affections — Do you not know, 
from the word, that the kingdom of God is within 
you; or the reverse, the kingdom of the evil 
one — Christ's or God's kingdom is the kingdom of 
light and life? The Prince of peace, the Noblest 
Potentate, not only of a few square miles; but 
of all existence, all creation — was laid in a manger 
a feed trough. No wonder the Jewish High Priests, 
vain, proud and ignorant, did not take to Him. 
Poor Isreal, was blind and led by blind leaders 
of the blind, or they would have known the spirit 
of Jehovah was upon Him ; who now is the divine 
human Ark, transferred to the courts above, and 
is the tabernacle or most holy body and person of 
Jehovah God — The Alpha and the Omega; the 
beginning and the end ;The first and the last — now 
King of Kings and Lord of Lord's. The one and 
only God. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Paul one of the most enlightened and intelli- 
gent of the Jews since the time of Moses and the 
old Isreal fathers; says, in Romans 11-26 *There 
shall come out of Zion the deliverer, and shall 
turn away ungodliness from Jacob" — You will 
notice in Isiah of the Old Testament 59-20 ''And 
the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 47 

that turn from trnsgression in Jacob." It would 
be profitable to compare those two chapters, by- 
careful reading, and it is my desire to bring to 
your notice for comparison some scripture reading 
from the old and the new Testaments to show 
that there never has been but one God, and that 
Jehovah God of the old book said that He was the 
ouly creator, redeemer and regenerator — and the 
New Testament reaffirms the same — As Christ al- 
ways said that it was the Father in Him that did 
the works. As we say, when we do any good ; that 
Christ moveth us ; or that we act from His spirit. 

Isa. 9-6. ''Unto us a child is born, unto us 
a son is given, and the Government shall be upon 
his shoulders; and His name shall be called won- 
derful. Councillor, God, the Mighty Father of 
eternity. Prince of Peace. 

Isa. 7-14. A Virgin shall conceive and bear 
a son, and His name shall be called God with us. 

Jer. 23-5-6-also 23-15 and 16. Behold, the 
days shall come, that I will raise up unto David a 
just branch, who shall reign a King; and this is 
His name, which they shall call Him, Jehovah our 
justice. 

Isa. 25-9. Then shall it be said in that day, 
lo, this is our God whom we have waited for, that 
He may save us; this is Jehovah whom we have 



48 PROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

waited for; let us rejoice and be glad in His salva- 
tion. 

Isa. 45-14-15. Only in thee is God, and there 
is no God besides; verily thou art a God, that 
hidest thyself, God of Isreal, the Saviour. 

Isa. 45-21 and 22. Am not I Jehovah and 
there is no God else besides me, a just God and a 
Saviour, there is none besides me. 

Gen. 43-11. I am Jehovah, and besides me 
there is no Saviour. 

Isa. 43-11. I am Jehovah, and besides me 
there is no Saviour. 

Hos. 13-4. I Jehovah am thy God, and 
throu shalt acknowledge no God besides me, and 
there is no Saviour besides me. 

Has. 62-16. Thou 0, Jehovah art our Father 
our redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. 

Isa. 44-6. Thus said the King of Israel and 
His redeemer, Jehovah Zebaoth, I am the first 
and I am the last and besides me there is no God. 

Isa. 48-17. Thus said Jehovah thy redeemer, 
the Holy one of Isreal, I am Jehovah thy God. 

Isa. 49-26-60-16. That all flesh may know 
that I Jehovah am thy Saviour and thy redeemer, 
the mighty one of Jacob and elsewhere in the old 
Bible— Isa. 42-11 and 12— Isa. 43-1-4-9— Jer. 15- 
20 and 21— Hos. 13-4-14— Ps. 31-5— Ps. 44-26-49 
15-55-17-69-18 and in fact many hundred other 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 49 

passages going to show that Jehovah God — ^was 
creator — redeemer and regenerator and that He 
is identified, as the divine truth, the Messiah that 
came — Now we will read passages to show that 
the God of the old is identical with the God of the 
New Testament. 

John X 11-4?. He that seeth me seeth Him 
that sent me. 

John 16-15. All things that the Father hath 
are mine. 

John 13-3. That the Father hath given all 
things into His hands. 

Matthew 28-18. All power is given unto me 
in Heaven and earth. 

John 14-13 and 12. Whatsoever ye shall ask 
in my name this I shall do, and again He says. 
'1 will do it.'' 

John 16-13-14. The spirit of truth shall not 
speak from himself, but he shall receive of mine, 
and declare it unto you. 

John XV-5. He that abideth in me and I in 
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for 
without me you can do nothing. 

John 17-21-23-26. For them I sanctify my- 
self that they also may be sanctified through the 
truth — that they all may be one, as thou, Father, 
art in me and I in thee ; I in them and they in me. 

Luke 1-30-35. "And the angels said unto 



50 FRO'M DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

her, fear not Mary ; for thou hast found favor with 
God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy 
womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his 
name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be call- 
ed the Son of the Highest ; and the Lord God shall 
give into him the throne of his father David. 
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for- 
ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 
Then said Mary unto the angels, how shall this be, 
seeing I know not a man? And the angel answer- 
ed and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come 
upon thee, and the powder of the Highest shall 
overshadow thee ;theref ore also that holy thing 
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son 
of God." 

Why the Jew^s did believe that Jehovah talk- 
ed with Moses from within the golden arranged 
and divinely prepared ark, and not believe He 
could come in an human ark, I was never able to 
understand. 

A few more passages from John 1 to 14. 'In 
th beginning was the word, and the word was with 
God, and the word was God. The same was in 
the beginning with God. All things were made 
by Him ; and without him was not anything made 
that was made. In him was life; and the life 
was the light of men. And the light shineth in 
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 51 

not. There was a man sent from God, whose 
name was John. The same came for a witness, 
to bear witness of the light, that all men through 
him might believe. That was the true light, 
which lighteneth every man that cometh into the 
world. He was in the world and the world was 
made by him, and the world knew him not. He 
came unto his own and his own received him not. 
But as many as received him, to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God, even to them 
that believe on his name: Which were born, not 
of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 
of man, but of God. And the word was made 
flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, 
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) 
full of grace and truth.'' 

Jno. 10-30. Jesus Christ saith, ''I and my 
Father are one." "Then the Jews took up stones 
again to stone him." ''Because that thou, being 
a man makest thyself God" — Jno. 12-44-46. "He 
that believeth on me believeth not on me, but on 
him that sent me." "I am come a light into the 
world, that whosoever believeth on me should not 
abide in darkness." Jno. 14-6. "Jesus saith unto 
him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; 
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If 
ye had known me, ye should have known my 



52 FROlM DARKNEiSS TO LIGHT 

Father also; and from henceforth ye know 
him and have seen him. PhiHp saith unto him, 
Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficith us. 
Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time 
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? 
he that has seen me has seen the Father ; and how 
say est thou then, show us the Father? Believest 
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father 
in me? the word I speak unto you I speak not of 
myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he 
doeth the works." Now shall I mulitply words to 
impress the main facts of this book, that Jesus 
Christ was the Father speaking to us from the 
human ark or temple, which the Father assumed 
in time, for redemptive and saving purposes ; and 
that the holy spirit or God's spirit was the mov- 
ing principle, in the divine natural called the 
Son. The unseen life or controlling mind in 
Jesus Christ, was that of Jehovah God. Now can 
you not understand that the spirit of Jehovah 
came to the children of men and was as He said, 
their only Creator Redemmer and Regenerator. 
There is no God, but the one Jehhovah, who is, 
was and ever will be our only God — The Lord 
Jesus Christ. Go to Jesus Christ in prayer and 
and you go to the only God. Do His will. Force 
yourself to outwardly keep His commands, and 
ask Him to give you the desire or love for them 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 53 

and He will wash you inwardly, and remove you 
from the society of the devils, within you, and lead 
you up into and among angels, in a higher sphere 
of life within you, while you live on earth, without 
your knowledge of what has taken place. But 
your affectionate nature or inward will principle, 
will have undergone a change. You will pass from 
spiritual death unto spiritual life. You will have 
been born again ; this is the spiritual birth. You 
will become a new creature in the spirit of our 
God. You will then mind the things of the spirit, 
more than the things of the flesh. Your con- 
trolling will, or desires, will then eminate from 
God instead of from the devil. You will think 
from the Lord, instead of from hell. You will 
want the Lords will done in earth, as it is in 
Heaven according to the Lord's prayer, my 
dear reader, catch the spirit of Christ Jesus, and 
the veil of darkness will be lifted, and you will 
have passed from darkness to light. I might say 
catch the spirit of Jehovah God, for it is the same 
identical thing, under different verbage, or names. 
There is only one God and His name is the Lord 
Jesus Christ. Let me beg of you to go to the 
Lord, and supplicate Him to remove your inmost 
soul, from the society of hell, which you may be 
in; and place you in a society of the Heavenly 
ones — and He will do it provided you believe He 



54 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

is God, and can help you; and provided further- 
more that you will force yourself to keep His 
commands whether you would like to or not; you 
can know you will never want to, as long as the 
devils are your inmost associates and heart com- 
panions. It will be like going against your very 
life at first ; but you will find the yoke is easy and 
the burden light; and a little later you will find 
that there is no yoke at all — that the real yoke 
was what you took off when parting company 
with evil affections ; and coming up into the liber- 
ty of spiritual life in Christ Jesus, and inward 
consociation with angels of light, with whom you 
will find peace and ecstatic joy and happiness 
never dreamed of before ; while you were inwardly 
consociated with devils or evil affections. 

The man who is grounded in the faith that 
Jesus Christ was and is the divine being, looks to 
the divine being when he believes in His exist- 
ence, and no one believes in the divine being who 
is not willing to be led by Him. 

There are two kinds of mental or soul light, 
natural light procured by natural sciences from 
the world, and spiritual light procured from the 
divine word understood. True intelligence and 
wisdom comes from procuring divine truths from 
the word, and living according to them — To see 
truths within yourself from their light and to per- 



OR THE VEIL UFTBD 55 

ceive that it is truth, is to be in some degree of 
wisdom. If you would see that divine truth is 
light to the understanding, and that the under- 
standing is only in the vine Jesus Christ, when 
it is in the divine light, which He came into the 
world to bring, and which He alluded to so often 
as being the light of the world! you can more 
readily understand how the divine truth can be 
in us and we in it. Now within the divine truth, 
the son, is divine love the Father as its sub- 
stance and life — So he that hath the Son hath the 
Father also — As there is no light except it has 
heat in it — Light is the form of heat its sub- 
stance and neither can exist without the other. 
Focus the rays of light from the sun even in winter 
upon your hand and you will find heat. So is it the 
same with divine truth. Heavens light is never with 
out love in it. You would be astonished at the 
degree of light one can enter, by coming into it 
through the opening of the interior degree of the 
soul, which is done by Christ, Heaven's powerful 
light — Simply by recognizing Him as the divine 
being, and turning to Him in outward obedience. 
The interiors of the mind are formed by looking 
to Jesus Christ as the divine being He claimed 
to be, and by no other means can grace be pro- 
cured. If poor sinners only knew what is act- 
ually possible to achieve by making the test, they 



56 PROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

would never remain in the darkness, and slaves 
to hellish passions ; which causes all their troubles 
and sorrows ; and dooms them to eternal night and 
gloom, to say the least. True wisdom and intelli- 
gence consists in the power of perceiving the 
comparative difference between the good and true, 
from the evil and the false, by intuition or in- 
terior perception; consequently when by keeping 
the Lord's words you come into interior light, 
which increases your spiritual discernment or 
sight, you become a true witness for the divine 
truth — the same as Peter or Paul; provided you 
became possessed of the light of the divine truth 
to the same degree. Coming into the light of the 
divine truth or Christ, is like coming into a clear 
sunlit sky, after having been under a dark cloud 
always. Why should we not crave Heaven's 
light even more than the light of an earthly college 
education ; when there is basolutely no comparison 
between the two, yet we spend much time and 
money for worldly lore. Get Divine wisdom and 
understanding, is what Solomon meant — and to 
get it, brings the kingdom of Heaven within you, 
and light always expells darkness. Shall we con- 
tinue in darkness? What fearful consequences 
follow. '*And this is the condemnation, that 
light is come unto the world, and men loved dark- 
ness rather than light, because their deeds were 



OR THE \EIL LIFTED 57 

evil — John 3-19. Turn your hearts away from 
evil, and believe in the light and you will come in- 
to the light, and you will love the light. Remain 
a life time in the dark, and your internal spirit- 
ual yes, or discerning faculties will become so 
used to the darkness, that you will become a spirit- 
ual bat or bird of the night ; and could not stand 
the light of Heaven or be able to see in its light 
were you permitted the privilege of going there 
after your life is ended on earth. To change you 
after you leave the eari. moulds, would be to 
annihilate you. You would not be the same ident- 
ity. Were it possible to give us light and Heaven 
without preparation for it in this life, it would not 
have been necessary for the divine light to have 
come in the flesh, and suffered the agony of sweat- 
ing blood for our sakes. If Jesus Christ could 
endure the cross to bring the light to us, it does 
seem we might be willing to accept it, and enjoy 
it — instead of hugging evil to our breasts, con- 
tinuing in sin, and sorrow, in order to secure the 
devil. To enjoy sin for a season of three score 
and ten years, does not end there but settles us 
for eternity, and an eternity in misery, shame, 
sorrow and suffering. Who wants to trust to 
sins route? Solomon says, 'The fool in his heart 
saith there is no God." 

The reason people abide in darkness, is, be- 



58 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

cause they do not believe that all power in Heaven 
and earth is now in Jesus Christ. ''But they have 
not all obeyed the gospel. For Esias saith, Lord, 
who has believed our report?" Ro. 10-16. If we 
choose darkness in this life, we choose it to etern- 
ity. Which shall it be? That is the question. 
If you say the churches are in darkness, that does 
not excuse you. Get the light, and go into some 
church, and let your light shine. These lines are 
not in the interest of any one denomination, but 
in the interest and the name of the light, Jesus 
Christ to whom they are lovingly dedicated. 
Ten per cent of the proceeds from the sale of this 
book will go to form a permanent fund to go to 
the support of Rescue Homes, am^vhere in the 
United States. I trust the little book may be 
the means of causing many poor misguided little 
girls to come into the light of Jesus Christ, the 
divine truth — Thereby becoming new creatures 
and fitted for the kingdom of light eternal in the 
Heavens. I also trust the little book, may be the 
means of lifting the veil of darkness from many 
minds, by causing many, to desire the light, to the 
extent that they will search, and make the neces- 
sary effort to acquire it. All that is necessary, 
is, to turn to Jesus Christ, believe that all Divine 
power is vested in Him, in Heaven and 
earth, and that He is God-man; and the one to 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 59 

whom prayer should be directed, and He should 
be in your mind, as our Father in Heaven, when 
you pray the Lord's prayer, or any prayer. You 
go to the well when you want water — When you 
go to Jesus Christ you will find, in Him, both the 
well and the water ; for divine truth, or the word, 
is the Son in whom is the divine grace or love, the 
Father. The scripture quoted in this book, is to 
to confirm that fact. Re-read it, and consult the 
entire word for further confirmation. There is 
but one great light shining, from divine love, in 
the Heavens above, and that light is sufficient to 
light up all finite understandings and to warm 
up all finite hearts, in Heaven and the church on 
earth to all eternity. 

Jesus Christ our Heavenly Father, the creat- 
ive Divine, Divine Redeemer in time, and whose 
Divine spirit is the Regenerator to eternity, is on 
high and shining down into all the minds of 
angels in Heaven and into all the regenerated 
minds on earth — The church — And the divine love 
and light fiowing down into our regenerated 
hearts and minds — Causing conscious light, in 
our understandings, in His divine presence with 
us, and is His Holy spirit into which we are bap- 
tised, — And is that which is spoken of by some 
new thought writers as the over soul. His spirit 
is our over-soul — and the over-soul — is the king- 



60 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

dom of Heaven within us — and when we have 
passed from death unto life, we have passed from 
the kingdom of the evil one into the kingdom of 
Jesus Christ ; from the kingdom of darkness into 
the kingdom of light; from consciation with evil 
affections from hell, into good affections from 
Heaven, actually and not ideally. There is no 
man or woman so steeped in sin, but that can be 
renewed, and made a new creature entirely, by 
putting on the new life in Christ Jesus — The life 
of conforming their wills to the will of the blessed 
master. The wages of sin is spiritual death — death 
of the soul, the wages of faith and obed- 
ience is everlasting joy and happiness in the life 
of the over-soul. It is becoming in, **Tune with 
the Infinite," here in this life; with all the honor, 
' 'righteousness, character, purity, innocence 
light, life, respectability, joy, happiness and every 
blessedness known upon earth to the human heart, 
and hereafter our passport to eternal blessedness 
in Heaven above. 

Now the object of this book is to aid you to 
understand God's Holy word better by giving 
you the benefit of the thoughts, which the writer 
discovered would have been beneficial to himself 
had some one placed such thoughts before him, 
when he was a yonug man or even when a child. 
What anyone needs most, who really desires 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 61 

Heavenly knowledge, or wisdom ; is to have some 
one of mature spiritual discernment to correct 
some of the mistaken natural views touching 
spiritual life, natural life and our own physical 
organization. There are spiritual thoughts to an 
infiinite extent concealed in God's Holy word; 
and they cannot be discerned to any greater de- 
gree, or any sooner, than a soul is prepared to 
receive them. God only opens up the light except 
to the extent He knows it will be loved and lived ; 
for otherwise it were better you had not known it. 
For to see and not love, is to stab, by turning 
away from it. If you desire the light, determine 
in yourself that you will obey it, and follow it, as 
the Lord reveals himself to you — ''While ye have 
light believe in the light that ye may be the child- 
ren of light" Jno 12-36. Now I wish you to 
understand, that there are two kinds of mental 
or soul light. One natural and enlightens the 
natural external mind, the other is spiritual. 
Heavenly and for your internal mind, as the in- 
ternal is opened in you by the Lord, through re- 
birth and regeneration. When the internal is 
opened, this spiritual light gives you a far better 
natural intellect. This spiritual light is the 
light from divine truth, or divine wisdom, or the 
Holy spirit, or Jesus Christ; whichever you may 
term Heaven light; it will be yours, to enjoy and 



62 FROM DARiKNEiSS TO LIGHT 

use. No amount of natural wisdom, fleshly or 
carnal education can produce or furnish this light. 
'*And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art 
the Christ the son of the living God. And Jesus 
answered and said unto him Blessed art thou 
Simon — Bar — Jona; For flesh and blood hath 
not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is 
in Heaven.'' Mat. 16-17-18. 

There is a soul light or a degree of wisdom 
enjoyed by God's children; (and what I mean by 
God's children are those who keep His words from 
faith and love for them, to the extent of living 
them) ; that is not known or experienced by the 
unregenerated. Turn to your Bible concordance 
and read the passages under the word light. It 
will help you. The unity of Father, Son and Holy 
Spirit, is discerned more clearly as you come into 
the light spiritual. There is but one God, and to 
know Him aright is life everlasting. 

No wisdom, truth, light, love, affection or 
any thought has ever been added to God or will 
be, from eternity to eternity. He is the same un- 
changeable God, and this fact will loom up to you, 
when you get into the light of the spirit, and can 
have the word opened up to your discernment, by 
keeping the Lord's words, and going direct to 
Jesus Christ, as to one vested with all power in 
Heaven and earth. I desire to impress this fact. 



OR THE VELL LIFTED 63 

That you cannot get the light or the Son, by going 
to the Father direct for the Son (the Divine 
Truth), but you can get the Father by going to 
the Son. When you pray — Our Father in Heaven 
— it will help you very much to let your mind 
seize the idea and fact that Jesus Christ, is that 
Father in Heaven, and when you get His ears 
and mind, you get the Fathers also and at the 
same time, for they are one God. ''Whosoever 
denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father; 
he that acknowledges the Son, hath the Father 
also,'' Jno. 2:23. *'He that hath the Son, hath 
life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath 
not life.'' Now remember life itself is God. God 
is divine love and divine love is life, and divine 
truth is the Messiah or the divine light that mani- 
fested the Life, or Divine love, the Father in this 
world. He that hath the Son, divine truth, hath 
life (the divine love or Father also.) ''And we 
know that the Son of God is come, and hath given 
us an understanding, that we may know Him that 
is true; and we are in Him that is true, even in 
His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and 
eternal life," Jno. 5-20. 

And please remember the fact, that Philip 
was told, when he asked to be shown the Father, 
that when he saw Him he saw the Father also. 
And no man has ever seen the Father, but the Son, 



64 FROM DAKKNEISS TO LIGHT 

and never will you ever see the Father save when 
you see the Son. We could no more see the Father 
Divine Love, except as we see Jesus Christ ; than 
we could see each others souls with our natural 
eyes. When you see the temple, a soul dwells in, 
with your natural eyes, you say I have seen the 
person. When you get to Heaven, no doubt you 
will see our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you 
will see so much more of His divine glory in look- 
ing upon Him than Philip saw, that you will not 
ask to see more of God. The natural mind, in- 
deed finds it hard to think a spiritual thought, be- 
cause it cannot rid itself of, or in thought rise 
above space and time, which enables one to think 
more abstractedly. But this power comes with 
the light of the spirit. Another point I would 
call to your attention, is, the fact that the natural 
mind dwells in the notion, that we have life from 
ourselves as our very own, separate from the pres- 
ence of God with us. Now the truth is that we 
only received from our earthly Father, a soul, the 
first and purest form receptive of influent life, 
from ever present God. And that soul form, re- 
ceived from our earthly Father, was clothed upon 
with a body from the mother. Now, life itself is 
what abhors a vacuum, and there is no form but 
what has its life from ever present God ; and the 
life of every form is according to the nature of 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 65 

its inmost form. Every angel, man, devil, beast, 
vegetable or mineral form has its life, from the 
ever present life of God, as an influx into itself; 
and the influent life is changed in the receptive 
form, according to its inmost form. As in Adam, 
all died, so in Christ are all changed back to living 
images and likeness of God. No animal but man 
could fall or change the order of its life, from that 
in which it was created at first. Our forefathers 
by disobedience and turning away from the light, 
or Divine Truth, caused all the mental darkness, 
and all our trouble, and sorrows. God manifest- 
ed Himself in the vessel born of Mary, called the 
Holy thing, because the soul of Jesus Christ was 
God's own hidden spirit, or the Divine Truth 
(which is called son) which came in the flesh; but 
remember divine love (the Father) was mani- 
fested by the son (Divine Truth). For Christ 
was the manifestation of God. Let me illustrate : 
This book carries to you my words, the statements 
are truths, as I see them and understand the sub- 
ject and am able to portray my mind to you; as 
hurriedly as I am doing. Now this book is my 
creature, son or my light going to you, manifesting 
my soul or spirit, which soul or spirit I could not 
have had; nor sent to you; but for the love or 
Father of it in me prompting or creating the 
work. The real man in every one is His love, 



66 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

and the will is the seat of man's love, as the un- 
derstanding is the seat of the thought. Now my 
love causes me to have the thoughts, and my love, 
(my real self) is manifested to you through the 
thought (my Son) I send out to you, in not a 
finely bound book, but the book is the creature of 
the printer, (the mother) who clothes the thought 
(my Son) which manifests my love for you (the 
Father). Now while the book is being read by 
you, is not my spirit or the spirit of my son oper- 
ating upon your mind or spirit, so you can see 
how Divine Love (Father) is in Divine Truth 
(Christ) and Divine Truth (Christ) in us, and we 
are all in the self same spirit, God in Christ and 
Christ in us. 

The end in the cause and both in effect. Love 
in Truth and both in us. God all and in all. An- 
other thought which it is important to remember 
and know. It is a doctrine of the church, com- 
monly known and taught ; that all good is 'of God, 
and all evil from the devil. How it would help 
one if he really believed that all good flowed in 
from God and all evil from the devil, which is truly 
the case. There is one Fountain of Life, which is 
the source of all life, — the Lord, and this is the 
first and only source of all life ; even hell receives 
life into the hellish forms, of the devils in hell ; and 
it is the reception of life, into broken and discord- 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 67 

ant forms, that changes the life of God into that 
of the devil, as it flows in and is received in the 
devils and satans composing hell. We are under 
the influences of either good or evil; God or the 
devil; Heaven or hell; and we are free between 
the two forces. One a force constructive, the oth- 
er only a force to destroy. One is light, the other 
darkness. One has a tendency to pull you up- 
ward (not in space) into a purer state or quality 
of soul — life and the other down into a lower state 
or quality of mind and heart. We do not notice 
it, because the influx is beyond consciousness ; but, 
since the natural degree of life has been corrupted 
by the fall of our forefathers and is entirely out 
of the divine order in which we were created, 
and a hell was created by this broken order, by a 
disobedient ancestry. We have had to be under 
the influence of hell, by being born into this de- 
praved natural, so we are under the influence of 
hell in the natural mind, warring against the 
spirit of God in our internal or spiritual mind. 
Happy are we if the life of the spiritual mind 
wins control over the natural or carnal mind in 
us. The matter must be decided by ourselves, by 
each one's own free choice, as to which shall rule 
over us, the flesh or the spirit, the natural mind 
or the spiritual mind. One is the devil and the 
other is God warring in your soul for the supre- 



68 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

macy. The battle ground is your soul and life — 
the time is during your life on earth. The im- 
portant question with you is, which shall gain the 
supremacy and rule in you. You must be the 
one to decide the fight. The fight is made to ap- 
pear as your own, so you must choose between the 
two. You remember the passage already quoted 
in this book, about whose servant you become — 
by obedience. Choose ye this day whom ye will 
serve, God or the devil. By your choice you are 
engrafted into the vine of Divine Truth, or you 
remain in the vine of the corrupt, natural falsity 
and evil. Will you pull with the good or the evil, 
will you live a righteous, obedient life, or an 
unrighteous disobedient life? Will you pull 
with the white horse or the black horse? You 
have your equilibrium or freedom of will between 
them. For God or for the devil. In Heaven's 
light or remain in the dark natural light. 

By becoming spiritual, and having the light 
of true wisdom to rule in you, you do not lose 
any happiness, you only become possessed of a 
more rational, orderly natural life; when the 
victory is gained by the spiritual over the 
natural life, you do not loose natural life, and 
enjoyment of your natural mind while on earth, 
you only become free of the control of hell while in 
your earthly bodily life. You are the gainer in 



OR THE \EIL LIFTED 69 

every conceivable way. Hell life is a snare and a 
delusion. It is servitude despicable. You can 
get out of it if you only will. The Lord is ever 
ready and waiting with outstretched arms to re- 
ceive you and free you from the yoke of hell ; but 
you will not look to Him and live. You prefer 
the crooked, discordant, perverted evil and false 
life of the natural will; the carnal fleshly rule; 
trusting to its rule and guidance in this life. To 
the rule of the righteous, happy, orderly life in 
the spirit, in this life. Do not continue in your 
deep sleep, thinking the Lord can help you after 
you die, as to the body, and go to Him in the 
Heavens above. He could not then change you 
without destroying you, without annihilationg 
you. For then you will be the form of your de- 
sires and mind, formed in the life of the body, and 
to change that would be like changing a bat into a 
dove. You would not be the same fellow. You 
would not know yourself. You would be some 
one else and not yourself. No my friend, all 
changes ever wrought by God in you, will have 
to be done with your free choice, in accepting 
the changed condition, while in the bodily moulds. 
God is ever ready and willing now to help you, but 
He will not force you even here to change. He is 
wooing you now to accept Him, ere it is too late. 
God gives us three score and ten years to work 



70 FROM DARKNE:bS TO LIGiHT 

back to the image and likeness of our first parents, 
at creation of the human race. 

When you are born of the spirit, you are then 
only a spiritual babe in Christ. You have to grow 
in grace, in nurture and admonition ; and in spirit- 
ual statue formed as you feed upon the divine 
good and truth ; the body and blood of our Lord. 
If you could only see the form of your spirit, be- 
fore reformation and regenration, you certainly 
would want to feed it upon some life-giving and 
reforming substance. Do not wait for death to 
settle the matter. It will then be too late. You 
will be fixed by that time for everlasting life, in 
an inverted, hellish discordant, misshapen soul 
form; that cannot receive within itself life in 
purity, innocence, peace, refinement, joy and hap- 
piness, but only the reverse, and you will be dis- 
possessed of your external outward seeming or- 
derly life; and become the form and life of your 
leading affection or controlling love. 'Tor who- 
soever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall 
have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, 
from him shall be taken away, even that he hath.'' 
That does not offer much consolation to a man 
living in unrighteousness, and in a Pharisocial 
life, here on earth out of Christ, does it? The 
spirit of divine truth woos us to accept a life in 
the light of truth. Is not truth better than falsity 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 71 

for any soul to be in ? We seek natural truths in 
our colleges for natural light. How much more 
important it is for the soul to become lit up by 
spiritual truths, and spiritual truth to the extent 
of light, is not acquired outside of a life of obed- 
ience to the Lord's words ; and a loving obedience 
at that, if you wish to abound in great light. Why 
should we not desire to be ruled and guided by 
divine wisdom? Why should we not desire that 
His will should be our will, in the matter is how it 
best for us to live. Do you suppose that you could 
live in Heaven contrary to God's will? Do you 
suppose you would desire to live according to His 
will in Heaven, after refusing to do so during all 
your earthly career? Remember that all your 
life is composed of the desires of your will and 
the thoughts in your understanding, each day you 
live here on earth. The only difference between 
angels in Heaven and those in hell, is a difference 
in what they will and think, — or what they desire 
and think. Those in Heaven are moved by neigh- 
borly love toward each other in thought and ac- 
tion, while those in hell are moved by selfishness, 
hate, lust, and concupiscenses of every foul nature. 
They could not stand Heaven if permitted to go 
there; neither could the angels stand hell. Sq 
there is a great gulf fixed naturally between them. 
There is no argument for a hellish life at all ; but 



72 PROM DARKNElSS TO LIGHT 

those who are inclined to the love of self and the 
riches and honors of this world to the extent they 
will do evil to get them; ''Love, darkness, rather 
than light because their deeds are evil." It is 
just a matter of choice or taste as to the life one 
will live. Both are set before us. We will have 
no excuse when we face the bar of judgement and 
justice on our crossing over the river and the book 
of our lives are opened and we are judged. E very- 
deed is faithfully recorded in our minds and 
hearts, with the motives prompting each deed. 
Unless we get a change of will or heart, while 
here; change our affections and therefore our 
lives, and cease to be what we have been, and 
are now. My friends, the change cannot be made 
too soon for our good and best interests. Our 
eternal happiness depends upon not making any 
mistake in this life. Simple matter. Just go to 
Jesus Christ, and believe His words and do them. 
Your reasonable service. 

Now to sum up the thoughts we desire to im- 
press — The first, is to study the word and let the 
words of Jesus Christ be your doctrine of faith, 
as they are recorded in the four Gospels: Mat, 
thew, Mark, Luke and John. Let the Lord's 
words be true, before all others. Study the whole 
word. Remember that there is only one Lord, 
one faith, and one baptism. Jesus Christ, the 



OR THE VEIL LIFTEiD 73 

one Lord, faith in Him and baptism into Him. 
It does not matter so much as to which external 
society of the church you are connected, (this is 
my own view) , so long as you form a part of the 
Church Universal, and have the kingdom of God 
within you. Divine Truth, which constitutes the 
vine, is Jesus Christ, and He is the church in the 
highest sense. God in Christ and Christ in us 
and we in Him. Christ the vine, we the branches 
and the Divine Love the life in all. 

Again remember when our lips say one God, 
the idea of the mind should think one, or there 
will be a contradiction between the idea or 
thought, and the tongue. You will find in the 
Athan sr. creed, which is received in the whole 
Christian world, these words: "Although our 
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and 
man, still they are not two but one Christ; yea, 
He is altogether one. He is one person. Since 
as the soul and the body make one man, so God 
and man are one Christ.'' They are not in two 
persons with two wills and understandings. God- 
man — one God. They are one, the same as soul 
and body are one. So the divine human is God's 
human and must be approached in order that the 
divine called the Father, may be approached. Go 
to Christ in your idea of thought, and worship of 
God, and you go to all — and you have only the 



74 FROM DARKXESS TO LIGHT 

idea of one God in your mind. No human being 
can form a conception of the Father out of Christ. 
You cannot love and worship something you can- 
not form any idea of. WTien you think of Jesus 
Christ, think of Him as the Supreme Being, who 
is an infinite man, and the only man who has life 
from Himself and in Himself, and that there is 
an efflux of life out of Him, and an influx of His 
life into every created form, and that He is all and 
in all. And that His spirit of divine love and 
truth fills ever^" regenerated soul with all the vir- 
tue and wisdom they possess, and is the virtue and 
wisdom in them. That He flows unconsciously 
into all, but His life is received by each, according 
to the inward form or image of the soul. That 
the evil minded on account of their perverted 
state or condition, receive His inflowing life into 
forms which reflect hell instead of Heaven. Much 
as the difference in mirrors reflecting the sun 
light, — a poorly made, or a shattered mirror re- 
flects the opposite to what it should reflect, at 
times. We are so created that we reflect, when 
we act not our true desires, either the life of 
Heaven or hell, just the one we look to from loving 
best, and believing in the most, for a good time 
in this life. We live the life we love best. All 
ignorance is induced by loving self more than 
God and the riches and the honors of this world, 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 75 

more than an honest, sincere and just Heavenly 
life. This love for self and the world, turns the 
soul of man from wisdom's light, or Christ, who 
is love and wisdom itself, the heat and light of 
all righteous human lives. And this self love 
turns the soul of man to love and trust himself 
and the world for the all of life. So the sinner 
is bound down to darkness, through his faith in 
darkness. He worships himself, the creature, in- 
stead of the Creator. He knows no God but mon- 
ey, no world but this earth; trusting to his own 
prudence and not to the Divine Providence, be- 
lieving in only what he sees with his natural 
faculties and defective eye sight from a spiritual 
affectional attitude of his soul, in the direction of 
darkness — not deeming it a crime to live so care- 
lessly and indifferently. Verily, as ye sew, so 
shall ye reap. How could one expect to stand 
the glory of Heaven, after this life, if they hate 
that which is true, good and innocent in this life? 
If Peter, James and John should prostrate them- 
selves before the glory of the Lord when trans- 
figured, not able to endure the glory and bright- 
ness to the extent exhibited on that occasion, as 
was the same with John when in vision he beheld 
the Lord in the midst of the seven golden candle- 
sticks and fell prostrate on his face. How then 
can we expect to be in shape or form to receive 



76 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

the light, heat and innocence of Heaven in our 
souls, unless we are prepared in this world, not 
only to endure, but be formed to enjoy the high- 
est, purest and best society in Heaven. Heavenly 
thoughts and affections, t ruths and goods, knowl- 
edges and desires, facts and fancies, motives and 
life, wisdom and love, faith and charity, form 
the souls of angels in Heaven and saints on earth. 
We need not tell you what forms the souls of 
devils in hell or on earth, you know full well. 
"Choose ye this day whom ye will serve, remem- 
bering that, 'To whom ye yield yourselves serv- 
ants to obey His servants, ye are whom ye 
obey. Are you not convicted of sin? Should 
you not repent? By turning away from and ceas- 
ing to do evil? Should you not start your refor- 
mation and regeneration in order to justification, 
salvation and sanctification in the blessed state of 
a Heavenly life here and hereafter. What if you 
gain everything your heart should desire in this 
short life, at best, and die in a perverted, miser- 
able state of mind and soul ; dead and lost to every 
sense of that which is good, true, innocent, beau- 
tiful, sunshiny, bright, joyous and happy in a hu- 
man heart and life; what profiteth it; what good 
is it to you to eternity? We should turn to the 
Lord our God, learn of Him, cease to do evil and 
learn to do good. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 77 

We should avoid evil as mortal soul poison, 
which it is. We sha avoid bad company, as a 
cruel enemy. 

We should seek the company of the truest 
and best, as ointment to the soul, yea, more de- 
sirable than fine gold. Read and heed the prov- 
erbs of Solomon. While you live in this world and 
''Have the light, believe in the light, that ye may 
become the children of light;'' remembering that 
if you desire it, you can get it, by fulfilling the 
conditions set out in God's words, all of which 
are laws of Heavenly life. But the light can not 
be received, only in proportion as you will it, for 
the sake of living it — by turning your obedience 
away from the false and the evil ; you in that pro- 
portion, obey the true and the good, — and come 
into the true and good. 

When you start in your determination to 
follow the Lord, in your reformation and regenera- 
tion; you will find many and grevious tempta- 
tions, and in those temptations it will seem to you, 
at times that your Heavenly Father has deserted 
you; but remember that is only an appearance 
superinduced by the evil one. Overcome, and you 
will find seasons of rest, all along. If you should 
be overcome in temptation, do not despair, but go 
to the Lord with more determination than ever, 
to succeed and overcome. 



FROM DAItKNEiSS TO LIGHT 



Grov/th in grace, or a life in the Divine love 

is not attained all at once, it is a growth, until 
you become a full grown spiritual man in Christ. 
But if regeneration is started in this life, it will be 
finished in the other, if prevented here by death 
of the body. 

Above all things necessary, is, the cleanliness 
of the internal man; the inside of the cup and 
platter. Do not blindly believe that an external 
life, such as going to church; helping to support 
the church; outwardly walking as a Christian; 
praying long prayers; giving alms to be seen of 
men; and acting sincerely and justly for exped- 
iency sake, or for appearance sake ; will save you. 
The Gutv/ard form, without the inward substance, 
constitutes a sinful, Pharisical, hypocritical life, 
more soul destroying than a life of open rebellion 
against Christ. This is fully pointed out in the 
Divine word. The outward life should not be left 
undone, but should truly express the inward state 
of mind and heart. One is shadow the other sub- 
stance. When in faith you will be in the light 
from the heat of charity or love. Now charity is 
not the giving of alms unintelligently, but it con- 
sists in doing as truth directs; doing the words 
of the Lord. Living in charitable feelings toward 
all mankind, and especially so with your neighber, 
or brother in Christ. Remember that Christ is 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 79 

our nearest neighbor, and those we see His spirit 
in, are nearer neighbors, than publicans and sin- 
ners. Our City, County, State and Nation are our 
neighbors also to be loved. That which makes 
a neighbor is not nearness in space, but nearness 
in Spiritual State of heart and mind, in goodness 
and truth. Thought brings presence, but love 
is the conjoining force. Truth brings love, but 
love is the welding powder. Neither exist alone, 
both essential to the existence of either. Faith is 
in truths, formed by and of truths; but has no 
life unless the truths entering into it, are filled 
with grace or love, which is charity. Read the 
13 Chap. 1st Cor. and you will see what a dead 
thing faith is, without its substance charity, which 
is the force, in welding souls into beautiful 
Heavenly forms, and into a union, or consociation 
of angels in Heaven,and Saints in earth. Let us 
not think of ourselves as animals and have a soul ; 
but rather as souls and have a body. Let us think 
of ourselves as immortal souls, which can be re- 
born, into the spirit of the living and eternal God ; 
that within us resides a new world of thought and 
affection, that can be opened up in us, that when 
opened, consociates us with the angels of Heaven 
in our inmost aftectional nature and brings us in- 
to new affections and motives, which are superior 
to any, which we ever dreamed, we would ever 



80 PROM DARKNEISS TO LIGHT 

know or realize in this life. Sinner, you do not 
realize or know the possibilities of your own soul 
and life; you sleep in your unbeleif, a Heaven of 
happiness away, yet all the time blindly seeking 
happiness as the goal of life. Happiness, peace and 
joy you will never know, except through regenera- 
tion you awake to a knowledge of Heavenly wis- 
dom, in Christ our God, the light of Heaven and 
earth. There are three degrees of Heavenly light, 
spiritual natural, spiritual and celestial. Take 
them all. There are three degrees in the Spirit- 
ual Natural, three in the Spiritual and three in 
the Celestial. You know Paul alluded, to the third 
Heaven in one of his epistles. So we have author- 
ity to speak of the degrees in Heaven — or Heaven- 
ly life, and its form. The spiritual is the Lord's 
Regal Kingdom — The Celestial His Priestly King- 
dom. Brother take the degrees. Become a noble 
workman for the Master. He invites you now. 
You say you are bound down by the inmost in- 
fluence of hell, that you are dead in trespasses and 
sins. Look to Christ; our God, in His Human. 
He can raise you from the dead, and fill you with 
a new and better life. 

The natural human temple taken from the 
Virgin Mary, was builded into a living taber- 
nacle, for our one and only God to occupy eter- 
nally for our sakes ; in order that He might reach 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 81 

down to US in our low estate, to free us from bond- 
age to hell, to redeem us, from hells increased 
power, and to hold us in His Heavenly arms to 
all eternity. I am not dealing in pictures of fancy, 
as the natural dead soul may think ; but am telling 
you of real substantial states of mind, no devil in 
hell, or in earth, has ever realized, or known. For 
they are spiritually discerned ; but free to all who 
will go to the Fountain, and partake of the water 
of life freely. All are invited. All can, who will 
to become the children of light receive it; but 
none can lift the veil except **Zion's Deliverer'*. 
Jesus Christ, our triune God. God tabernacling in, 
(not now the flesh as when on earth, which was 
made by Him,) but in the natural human, made 
a Divine Natural Human body — So God became 
a man and a man became God, in that Union of 
the Divine and Natural. That union is hard to be 
comprehended in a small degree, even, by the 
initiated into spirtual life, consequently not com- 
prehended at all by the unaided natural mind. To 
know Him aright, means life everlasting. I have 
heard some say — ''Don't spiritualize the Bible." 
To all those I wish to say, you can't spiritualize 
the Book, but the Book can spiritualize you, if 
you permit it to have an abiding place in you. 
The natural can never enter the spiritual, but the 
spiritual can enter the natural. Natural intelli- 



82 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

gence is as a vessel, or vessels, to contain spirit- 
ual light. Inmost things flow into outmost, but never 
reverse. The word tells us, that God is a spiritual 
being, and must be worshipped in spirit and in 
truth. We are first born natural, then become ra- 
tional by education and mental growth after which 
it is possible to be reborn into the spiritual mind, 
heart and life; and become, as it were, actually 
a new creature or being. — You can never know 
except by experience ; and regeneration is the one 
thing needful to save a human being from eternal 
misery and woe. In our Saviour's time on earth, 
he found people abscessed, mind and body with 
evil spirits or devils. He seemed to have done 
away with outward obscessions ; but it seems now, 
that inward obscession, still prevails in the world ; 
for the christian world today, seems to be concern- 
ed more with numbers in church membership, 
than with the quality of the life, in the church. 
More effort to prevent outward temptations, and 
to remove them; than to administer the inward 
salve, necessary to heal the inward desires, and 
weaknesses. We might by rigid laws, fix men 
so that it would be dangerous to life and liberty 
to sin ; but keeping men from evil, by force, does 
not remove their hearts from a state of evil. The 
evil may be hidden, and not permitted to come 
to the surface, but just as long as the evil desires 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 83 

remain, the soul is bound in hell. The power we 
need, is the two edged sword of divine truth, so 
weilded that sinners may become convicted of 
their sinful and fearful state ; and may be shown 
a true way out, and a sure way out of their de- 
praved, servitude to the devil. It is well enough 
to remove the temptations, but were one fixed so 
he could never be tempted, he would never know 
the latent wickedness in his own heart. For we 
never know how wicked we are, nor how weak 
we are, until tempted; and without temptations 
to overcome, there would be no growth in 
spiritual grace and strength. 

If we follow the directions laid down in 
God's word — we can get out of the spirit of the 
devil and into the spirit of Jesus Christ — We are 
living today in one or the other, no matter how 
we may hide or disguise the fact, by our outward 
moral conduct. The human heart is in love with 
Jesus Christ or the devil, and is in the spirit of 
one or the other. If we love ourselves more than 
we love Christ; the devil has control of our in- 
most soul — If we love the riches and honors of 
this world, to the extent, that we would cheat, 
defraud, lie, steal or act insincerely and unjustly 
toward our fellow men, or our country to get them ; 
old satan has control of our inmost souls. It 
behoves us to examine ourselves and see how we 



84 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

stand. For our eternal welfare is at stake. The 
veil of darkness can be lifted from your under- 
standings and the light of Heaven be your's, in 
place of that darkness ; if you will learn that Jesus 
Christ was God operating in the man Christ Jesus, 
for the redemption and salvation of the human 
race ; and you can know it to be a fact if you be- 
lieve his report, and force yourself, for His sake, 
to remove some of your evil desires, by repent- 
ance, and forcing yourself to keep some one of 
His commandments simply for His sake — You 
will find He will enter you with His blessed spirit, 
to the cleansing of your inmost soul, from the 
stains of hell, and He will remove your inward 
enemies and place you with angels of light and 
love, while here in the natural body. Your will 
or heart will be filled by an entirely different 
class of desire, affections, and motives — Your life 
will become peaceful, joyous and happy. Now 
this is no idle speculation — You will be able to 
verify it yourself. You will have the witness 
within, though you might not be able to convince 
a devil, in this world or the other. A devil is 
any person, without the knowledge of Christ; 
that is a person out of His spirit, living in this 
world or the other. To be out of Christ, is to be 
lost ; and it is to be only in natural life. The one 
is Heaven, the other hell ; no matter how conceal- 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 85 

ed or disguised. We are first, natural, then spirit- 
ual, here in this life, provided the spiritual degree 
is ever opened by the spirit of Jesus Christ while 
we live in earth. My friends, I only wish I had 
the power of impressing you with the importance, 
of finding out the possibilities of your own souls. 
— Ere it is too late — The whole of Heaven would 
be rejoiced to know that you had determined, in 
your own soul, to flee the wrath to come, and 
that you were inviting the Lord of light, into 
your dark soul, to save you from the effect of that 
very cold and dark state of mind and heart. Evil 
and false lives were the result of disobedience to 
God, and they can only be restored in us by a life 
of obedience to our God. Without faith, we will 
never obey ; and without repentance, we will never 
have a saving faith, from the heart ; and without 
we are convicted of sin by the truth, we will 
never repent ; and if we are indifferent, and listen 
to the devil, we will never read God's word. We 
sincerely trust, some of the thoughts expressed in 
this little book, may be seed that will find lodge- 
ment in many minds, with soil, in which they may 
germinate, to the awakening of many souls to the 
blessed light, which it has been the desire and 
purpose of the writer, to try, through these pages 
to reflect, that the kingdom of light might be en- 
larged, and many poor souls blessed thereby. 



86 FROM DARKXESS TO LIGHT 

There is great natural education and learning 
which is not wisdom at all, though socalled in this 
world, natural breadth of learning is only scien- 
tific natural learning which may be termed genius ; 
but intelligence spiritual and wisdom celestial are 
two higher mental capacities, or degrees of higher 
light for the soul. Intelligence and wisdom, 
spiritual and celestial, is the spirit of God within 
the human soul. When you get into spiritual in- 
telligence you are in the second Heaven, or you 
have the light of the second Heaven as the light 
of your life, and you will love to be guided by it 
and to live in it. When you arrive at a point in 
your regeneration or growth in grace, that you 
love good, or that you love Jesus, better then your- 
self — The word Jesus stands for Divine Good — 
it means saviour — Divine Love, as good is of love, 
and truth is of wisdom; Christ stands for or 
means divine truth or light — Jesus Christ means — 
Good Divine and Truth Divine — Father and son in 
one — Excuse the digression — Or when you love 
good better than truth; Or when your motives 
entering into your every action in life, are prompt- 
ed by a will, formed of good; then you will have 
entered more deeply into God and you will be 
ruled by Divine Good more than, as before, when 
you were moved by your love of the divine truth. 
When the last enemy in you is conquered by divine 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTEiD 87 

truth then the divine good (the Father) rules in 
you. 

You will find also the word states than when 
Christ has put all his enemise under his feet; he 
will deliver the kingdom or the rule up to the 
Father — Divine truth rules in one christian, or in 
all, until every enemy to the soul is conquered in 
the one individual, or in the whole earth. If one 
christian reaches the regenerated state to the de- 
gree that divine love can occupy his heart to the 
extent that God is loved better than self — then the 
rule in him is from divine love rather than 
from Divine truth; so it will be with the 
entire earth when Christ the divine truth, the 
two edged sword has accomplished his work. God 
fights falsity and evil, through His truth — Love 
does not fight, but when love prompts or rules it 
is in and through wisdom ; and then God is all and 
in all — Examine 1st Cor. 15 Chap. 22nd to 28th 
verses — When we get into spiritual intelligence 
or wisdom, we are ascending into God — For God 
is divine love in divine wisdom, they are the very 
essence of God — When in that you are in God and 
God is in you. **He that dwelleth in love dwelleth 
in God for God is love," so the good book says. 
Therefore to be out of the spirit of God's word, is 
to be out of God. *'I am the Vine, ye are the 
branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the 



88 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

same bringeth forth much fruit ; for without me ye 
can do nothing/' Jno-15-5 — ''It ye abide in me, 
and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye 
will, and it shall be done unto you." Jno. 15-7. 
This does not mean to have the Lord's literal 
words abiding in your memeory ; but the light of 
their spiritual sense, or meaning abiding in you, 
as the light of your understanding, from having 
received the light through a belief from the heart, 
or will. The word says, **We believe from the 
heart unto salvation." That is from a love in the 
will for them to the extent that we will and do the 
Lord's words; put them into our lives from a 
sincere love for them, simply this and nothing 
less, will save your understanding from eternal 
darkness and your soul from hell. Ye must be 
born again — Ye must have a change of will or 
heart, and thereby a change of disposition, or 
life — from a supreme rule, from the love of self; 
to the rule, of loving God better than self — and to 
the rule of the love for the neighbor, better than 
the love of riches and honors of this world. You 
can love self and worldly honors and riches, but 
it is of hell, to love self and the world better than 
you do God and your neighbor. 

You have simply to be turned by the Lord 
from self and the world as your souls common 
center to Him as the hearts common center — 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 89 

And He can't turn you against your will, at least 
He will not do so — You will have to act with Him 
freely and of your own choice; as you are now 
doing with the heart turned freely away from 
Him. He will not break your freedom to save 
you — because He could not without going against 
one of the very laws of His own divine providence 
and one of the laws of your own being. You will 
never go to hell or heaven except through your 
own free choice. ^'Choose ye this day whom ye 
will serve'' — **Whom ye yield yourselves servants 
to obey, his servants ye are who mye obey." As 
we have tried to impress all along — Heaven or 
Hell, God or the Devil, light or darkness is ours 
to enjoy here and hereafter — which do we love the 
best? Which do we believe in, and are trusting 
to the most, now, for happiness? A person can 
stand hell better in this life, than in the next, for 
here he lives with the good, and can act apparently 
as good himself, outwardly ; but hereafter he will 
have that seeming good taken from him and can 
only act from his true nature, and live with his 
kind. You remember what the divine word says 
on that subject. *To him that hath shall be 
given but to him that hath not shall be taken from 
him that he hath, etc." Do not remain out of the 
light, even here on earth, if you had no other life 
than the one here, it would pay you better to come 



90 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

into the divine spirit of truth for the sake of its 
own good, which is peace, prosperity, joy, happi- 
ness and every blessing the human soul is heir to 
in this life — Not mentioning the riches, glory, and 
everlasting springtime in the sunny climes of 
divine love and truth hereafter. Go to the Lord 
Jesus Christ our God, seek Him strenuously, for 
some of the riches He inherited — He loves us 
all — He is willing and able to help us — He is call- 
ing you to turn, from being self and earth center- 
ed; to look in the direction of life, light and joy, 
to the direction in which the lamb is seen as the 
light of life. Why will you not look? It is be- 
cause your deeds are evil, that you love darkness 
better than light? You had better break the 
chains, the concupiscences, binding you down in 
darkness, and depraving you of the light of life 
in the Hchv spirit and of Holy divine truth, flowing 
down from the most exalted heights of supreme 
love itself — It is easy — Look, believe and obey. — 
*'And I say unto you. Ask and it shall be given 
you ; seek, and ye shall find ; — knock and it shall be 
opened unto you,'' 'Tor every one that asketh 
receiveth ; and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him 
that knocketh it shall be opened,'' Luke 11-9 and 
10. 

Now to those who may think that the life en- 
joined, by God's word, is impractical, I wish to 



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OR THE VEIL LIFTED 91 

say ; the writer of this book, has been a traveling 
man for 25 years, and he has not found, the spirit- 
uality herein taught and practiced, to have been 
any draw back to himself in the least — The writer 
now sees that he would have fared better even in a 
busines way had he been in possession of these 
thoughts and the life of them sooner. 

True christian life only demands a life of 
truthfulness, sincerity and justice practiced from 
love of the true, pure and good, in life and conduct, 
in dealing with your fellow man; and a belief 
from the heart that Jesus Christ was the son of 
God. 

You will find the difference between the life 
in the will of the flesh, and that from the new will 
of the spirit, to be as darkness to light, or as be- 
tween ignorance and folly, wisdom and joy — 
God is the creator of all the real ; man the creator 
of all the unreal, shadowy and seeming. 

For the sake of your future ; for the sake of 
your children, and your children's children; for 
the sake of the happines of your fellow men on 
earth who may come under your influence ; for the 
sake of the Heavens above; for the sake of your 
becoming a fit companion for some lovely woman, 
as husband, guide, companion and protector; and 
for the sake of your loving Heavenly father, who 
has done so much to save you from the tortures 



92 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

of an eternal hell of darkness, night, suffering, 
woe, torment and eternal death to all that is good 
true and beautiful in life; I would ask you to cut 
loose from the evil, which enslaves your inmost 
heart and soul, and causes you to be ignorant 
enough not to know who Jesus Christ was, is and 
ever will be — So much so that in your dark state 
of mind and heart you are even ashamed of Him, 
and I would be like you, had I no better, nor 
higher idea of Him than those who are ashamed 
of Him. To know Him aright is life everlasting; 
and yet some are so vile and weak, they are made, 
by old Satan, to believe that to seek Him and love 
Him, would endanger their mental strength. So 
long as the world, the flesh and the devil control 
you, you may know you are already insane touch- 
ing all spiritual subjects — and you had better re- 
frain from publicly expressing your opinions until 
you can think as a man, in God's image and like- 
ness ; and know when you speak, whether you are 
speaking that which is true or false; from God 
or the devil. For you can never think, speak or 
act, save from one or the other sources and places. 
Whatever a man loves he thinks is good, 
whether it is from an evil or a good origin, and 
generally finds an excuse for his actions — There 
is only one true guide, measure, and yard stick, 
and that is God's Holy word — I commend it to 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 93 

you, but remember you will never get into a proper 
understanding of the word, until you have found 
out that you are a sinner, repented, and have 
been somewhat reformed and regenerated, by a 
loving faith and life in the word. That you may 
come into the glorious light of the Gospel, to the 
saving of your immortal soul, and that the veil of 
darkness may be lifted from your understanding, 
and that you may receive the baptism of the water, 
of the Holy Spirit, and of Fire, ere you quit this 
mortal life, for your immortal home; and that 
your flight may not be in the winter of the soul, is 
the prayer of the writer of this little book. 

The infinite Jehovah before incarnation, while 
in his supreme glory, of spiritual essence and 
form; could not approach, in His naked celestial 
potency and effulgence of glorious light, his fallen 
children, any easier than the natural sun could ap- 
proach the earth, without destroying everything. 

His children, in their ignorant disordered state 
of mind, had fallen so low in mental darkness, the 
old ceremonial law had become inadeguate to per- 
form the use it had subserved and for which it was 
given. The finite mind, being finite, can never 
reach a capacity which would enable it to form a 
conception of God in His naked spiritual glorious 
being out of His divine natural personal form. 
And no one can possibly be conjoned by love to 



94 FROM DARKNEiSS TO LiaHT 

another, unless be can form an idea of that other. 
How can one love something, he can not form a 
thought concering it? Now this, God knew, and 
knew the hour would arrive when He would be 
compelled to clothe Himself with the natural de- 
grees of wisdom to redeem and save His children. 
This is pointed out all through the old Testament. 
God foreknew from the beginning when He made 
man, that it would necessite Him to put on a nat- 
ural mental gown or overall, in which to do His fin- 
al work, after His children had become lower, dir- 
tier and filthier. He knew He could never unite us 
to Himself through love, unless we could form some 
conception of Him. So He manifested Himself in 
a manner that we could form a conception of Him 
as one complete divine man; the central man, who 
lived from Himself, and one, that all other men 
could get life from His omnipresence with them. 
God has never been away from His children, but 
they turned away from Him, and lost their high 
state of wisdom and love, which our first parents 
enjoyed. As in Adam all died, to a high state of 
soul light and life; so in the last Adam, God would 
appear to the salvation of His lost children. How 
are we lostf And what is it that causes the soul 
to b© dead? We are lost to that which is real, liv- 
ing states of purity, innocence, goodness and truth 
as actual possessions; by being in heart turned to 



OR THE VEIL, LIFTED 95 

the natural world of riches and honors, for self's 
use for a limited time. And the soul is dead on 
account of its inward form induced by ignorant 
affections, and from its being turned away from 
the source of its life. To illustrate: — how could a 
cotton plant thrive if planted under a dense sha.de 
of a g-reat tree, w^here it ¥/ould be shut out, or 
turned away from the heat and light of the sun? 
The source of its natural life. Further, how could 
a Jewish child be expected to turn to Christ, as the 
God, with all power in Heaven and earth, and wor- 
ship Him as the only Divine man and as our only 
God, and as the only creator redeemer and re- 
generator; when they are growing up under the 
shade, influence, prejudice, teachings and attitude 
towards our God on the part of their parents. Is 
not the Jewish child, growing up under the great 
tree of Jewish thought and influence; and does not 
that turn the child's mind from Christ? Again, is 
not any false teaching a shade to the mind, to shut 
out the light of truth? There is nothing but truth 
and falsity; natural, spiritual and celestial truth, 
or the opposite degrees of falsity. Divine truth 
in its different degrees springs from Divine heat 
or love, in its different degrees, of heat or affection. 
The unition between the Christ, or the man, 
Divine Truth; and the Divine Love, in its surpeme 
potency, took place after our Savior ascended, (not 



96 FROM DARKNOESS TO LIGHT 

in space J but up into the greater love and wisdom 
called the Father; just into the supremest state of 
Divine Love and Wisdom. Now, Jesus Christ is 
the Infinite Person. The whole God-Man. And 
He fills Heaven and earth with His influence or 
spirit* Is not the Holy Spirit, Christ's spirit, 
that we have to get into, to be in the vine? Did 
He not say he would not leave us orphans, that He 
would send the spirit, from Divine love the Father, 
after He ascended into it? Are we not finite de- 
grees of or finite capacities to receive the light in 
a finite degree which He said He came to bring to 
us from God? Christ being the only begotten son, 
was capacitated by inw^ard soul form to finally con- 
tain the Divine love and wisdom, Itself, in its full- 
ness, while we can not approximate any such de- 
gree to all eternity. When we die as to the body, 
we leave the time world, for a life in the eternity 
world; or that world where Divine love is heat and 
Divine truth is light, inward and outward, of soul 
forms, or spiritual Heavenly finite beings. Re- 
read and study the thoughts of this book. You 
can not get the light however, unless you deter- 
mine you will live up to it, as you receive it, for 
God will not be mocked. He can not be deceived. 
He will not permit you to get it, only to again turn 
away from it and thereby profane it to your hur' 
The secret of getting it, is to be willing to follow it 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 97 

in your life. Following Christ, is doing His will. 
And how can you get the light without praying to 
the right source. In the act of praying to the Fat- 
her as outside of Christ, You are looking to the 
invisible in thought, and when the prayer is ended 
You think of Christ, only once in the whole prayer 
and that is when you say, **Do this Father, for 
Christ's sake. '' You think of Christ then Naturally 
and not spiritually. Were you to go to Christ in 
prayer, you would approach the whole God-Man, 
andyou would have a visible God-Man in your mind 
instead of none. For no finite mind can form a 
concept of thought about God as He existed out of 
Christ nineteen hundred and ten years ago, and 
previous to that time. He came to make Himself 
known, and to arrange Himself so we could be 
conjoined to Him, through a knowledge of Him, and 
an affection for Him. We are commanded to love 
Him supremely, since He made such sacrifices to 
put Himself within the bounds of our capacity to 
understand Him. The study of Christ, should be 
the most popular study on earth, as it is the most 
important for the souls eternal welfare. There is 
one orderly way for the natural degrees of a man's 
mind to be created, in a natural bodily containing 
vessel or form. And that is to be created first 
through the within to the outmost. God is all and 
in all, in the creation of a man or a tree, and He 



98 PROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 

works from within, as the lifeof each though neith- 
er the tree, nor the man, is conscious of what is 
being done within. So Christ came into the nat- 
ural, from Divine seed, in an orderly growth from 
within out. Now did He come in His own Name? 
Did He come as a self lover or a lover of the riches 
and honors of this world? Did He not condeum 
both, as loves, that if permitted to rule, would de- 
stroy the soul? The orderly natural life, when 
subject to the Divine laws of orderly life, in the 
natural world; is the sweetest best and happiest 
natural life, a human being can live, and that is 
what we attain by be coming true Christians. God 
came to reconcile the world, his fallen children, to 
Himself. He so leved his children, who were turn- 
ed away from Him, that He, at the proper time, al- 
ways expected to arrange it so He could send His 
light or Divine truth to us so we could get the 
light into us, by the means of belief and trust or 
faith in it. 

If you ever repent and believe, you will grow in- 
to trust, confidence and great loving faith; belief 
from the heart or will; that Jesus was the Christ, 
the Messiah, the God with us. Prince of peace on, 
earth while here, and after the union, after the 
conjunction of Divine natural truth the Son and 
Divine love itself. After the glorification of the 
Divine natural by being filled to the utmost with 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 99 

the infiQite Divine love, in the Divine body of nat- 
ural, spiritual and celestial truth; or after He came 
into His inheretance of all the things constituting 
the Father; did He not then become oar Heavenly 
Father? And when we pray should we nv>t think 
of Him; and end the prayer with the request that 
He do it for His own dear sake, or that the request 
is made in His Name and for His own salie, or for 
truth's sake? At least we should not inidea. think 
of two Divine beings, which is idolatrous. In 
Heaven we will not be double minded, and we can 
only speak or utter the ideas as we possess them. 
So it is safer and better to go to Christ as the 
whole, and when you go to Him as the Heavenly 
Father you go through the door into the sheepfold, 
or Heaven. It is honoring to Christ to do so, and 
He is your God, or you have none; for you know of 
none other, and if He is God there is none other, 
and we dare not say there is more than one. And 
if He is not that one, what part of the one is He? 
What part was He when on earth but the Divine 
truth or word. And the word is the creator, for 
the first chap, of Joh)i says so. And He came as 
the Redeemer and Savior. Now is not that the 
whole? 

It is by the means of Christ, Divine truth and 
faith in Him; that we get saving grace, or the 
change of our affections, by having evil to give 



100 FROM BARKINESS TO LIGHT 

place to the good of Divine love or the Father in us. 
The Father Divine love came to us in Divine truth, 
the son. Otherwise, in what way, was the Father 
manifiested? What did the Messiah manifest, but 
Divine truth and love? The Divine truth the son 
manifested Divine love the hidden one, the 
Father. Now, neither can exist without the 
other, nor ever existed without the other. 
There never was a thought of any kind that did 
not have desire in it or origniated from some kind 
of desire. Thought is alway son of some desire as 
it's Father. Words spoken are forms of sound. 
There never was an effect without a cause in it, 
which produced it. 

We should, ere it is too late, secure the oil of 
grace, love, or charity for our hearts, which are 
our lamps. Let us not trust to the form of faith, 
without the substance, grace; for if we do, we will 
miss the mark of the high calling, of a full grown 
man in Jesus Christ, the only true God. 




OR THE VEIL LIFTED IQl 

God is still tenting in tlie old camp ground; 
Which is still His great right arm to reach down, 
From the glorified state, to His poor children in the dark, 
And will ever tent in power, in the Divine Human Ark. 

The hidden life itself is the soul of the Son, 
Christ was God in the flesh, not two persons but one ; 
Therefore who looketh to the Son looketh to the whole; 
Then why climb some other way to the damage of the 
Soul. 

"For he whom God hath sent speaketh 
The words of God;" we accepteth; 
"For God giveth not the spirit by measure 
Unto him;" ponder that well in your leisure. 

The great physician came and is able to give relief, 
To all who will properly drink and exercise belief; 
The words of Christ are truly God's words sent; 
The body of Christ God's natural tent. 

The water of life is divine truth sent down. 
From the throne of light in a natural gown; 
This water is the wine of life, to all sent free. 
To drive from the soul the poison of Eden's tree, 

I will sing of Heaven as long as there is sin 

For quite a pleasure it gives, souls for Christ to win. 

When our Christ has put down His last enemy. 

And Heaven and the church are in unity. 



102 FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 



Then will I have just begun to be in tune sufBciently, 
To sing a just appreciation of what He has done in me; 
When there are no more sinners in earth to raise. 
In Heaven let me sing our Saviour's praise. 

Heaven is not in natural space above, 
But an inward state measured by our love; 
It is not attained through a worldly education. 
But by new inward life given in regeneration. 

Heaven is not up in space, this idea you must dissipate. 
For Heaven is up in you. it is a higher mental state; 
In an image of two worlds is your mind. 
One outward the other inward we find; 

You can go anywhere in space, and not find Heaven there, 
In any direction a billion miles above the air; 
You open up by degrees mentally within; 
Heaven is above the natural mind of sin. 



That was not first which is spiritual, 
But that (is first born) which is natural. 
And afterwards that which is spiritual;" 
Except my few words, this is scriptural. 

"And as we have borne the image of the earthly. 
We shall also bear the image of the Heavenly;" 
We are first a will of the flesh, which you see we trust, 
Reborn into a higher, from a lower mind of dust. 



OR TH/E VEIL LIFTED IQg 



Good is always found in true thought. 
For thought is by the other wrought; 
And good the truth doth always express. 
Loving it's own corresponding dress. 



Evil in its own false, will never appear, 

For the sound of its own voice itself doth fear; 

In borrowed robes will ever dwell. 

So long as away from its home in hell. 



Many a gem of sparkling worth, 

Has found the waste basket of a fool, 

To give place to matters of earth. 

As business, or a game of pool. !, 

The lost soul, a broken likeness of Heaven, 

The likeness of hell doth take; 

As a heavy cloud by adverse winds driven, 

Only moving shadows make. J 

Wonderfully formed and just only think, 
Man a broken image born, the world doth ape, ^ 

Until reformed by spiritual drink, ^ 

Into a new being of Angelic shape. 

The outward sensual mind looks down to things of earth, 
Turned with loving attitude to self since its' birth; 
By degrees higher chambers of the soul we enter, 
Until we behold Jesus Christ the common center. 



104 PROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT 



The earth is upside down and all undone, 

Praying to Father as out of the Son; 

To say our Father in Heaven we are taught, and allowable. 

When God in Christ is thought, otherwise it is intolerable. 



Are you seeking real substance, for better inner health. 
Or only chasing shadows for greater outward wealth; 
It is better to layup treasure in Heaven we are told. 
Than to be ever chasing rainbows to find a pot of gold. 

Let go the old sinful life, with it's motives queer, 

As noises made, the end of a departing year; 

Let in the new life from Christ, with the same good cheer. 

And darkness will give place to light, in you my dear. 

Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord; 

Let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation, 

Let us gladly be in one accord 

Before Him, in praise and thanks, for a greaterdelectation. 

The body is only the covering of the spirit. 
And when put off, then the real man is as you see it; 
Before reformation, it would be seen in evils dire deformity, 
But after regeneration, a form of inexpressable beauty. 

To apprehend the state of the Lord's glorification, 
Study it as imaged in man's regenration; 
Man before is double minded, after, one new mind has he; 
So our Lord in earth appeared, but now one God in glory. 



OR THE VEIL LIFTED 105 



Muses from the Divine One's inmost serafic throng, 
Tune our harp to accord with highest Angelic song; 
That we may draw, by tender melodies of thine. 
Many from the darkness to comprehend the Vine. 

Sinner! God is knocking, don't you hear His voice? 
Let Him in to sup with you and always rejoice; 
He will come in and assist you to atone. 
And will grant you to sit with Him in His throne. 

The way to come into Christ is very clear, 
Read His Holy word and do not fail to hear; 
When you get His ideas and begin to do His will, 
You will be a branch of the Vine and happier still. 

When reading these verses, do not dwell in the measure of the 

lines, 
But catch the thoughts, unless you intend to read them several 

times; 
They are sent in the form of a song of love, 
To woo you to worship the true God above. 

Faith is the form of saving grace. 

It takes them both to win the race; 

For faith alone, shadow of lifelessness and pain. 

Is but the form and mark, of Abel's brother Cain. 



Grace the living substance, from the Divine, 
Fashions its own forms, in which to recline; 
Out of the degrees in grace, man doth take, 
A Grand Man in Heaven, the Lord doth make. 



106 FROM DAKKNESS TO LIGHT 



That our Lord Jesus Christ, is the God of Heaven and earth. 
Is clearly seen in the light of the spiritual birth; 
When this idea of the word, is not perceived by the mind. 
It dwelleth in natural darkness, from being very blind. 



Repent, pray to the Lord, and He will be better understood; 

This is very easy and can be done, if you only would; 

And learn that the precepts of the decalogue, are the Words of 

life, 
According to which men must live, to over come a hellish 

strife. 



Faith alone, thou habitation of dragons; 
Hold of every unclean bird; owls companious 
Seek your mountains, in which to hoot and rest; 
You are Esau's waste, in the wilderness. 

If upon faith, without the works of grace you stand. 
Your house is erected only upon the sand; 
The rocks of truth a morter of love require, 
To build a soul for a world that is higher. 

They who believe from the heart are truly the saved. 
And our Lord's Holy Words are by them ever craved; 
They seek the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Love, 
As living Nectar and Ambrosia from above. 

If the lips proclaim that God is one. 
And the mind beholds Him in the son; 
No contradiction can arise. 
Between the lips and conscious eyes. 



OR THE VML LIFTED 107 



Upon unity in Trinity we will dwell. 

Until a little child can comprehend it well; 

To know our God aright, examine His Holy Book, 

For out of Christ is darkness, everywhere you look. 



Then why supplicate the Divine unknowable, 

In preference to the Divine Christ cognizable; 

When you say. Father in Heaven, think Jesus Christ, is He, 

And your prayer will reach the person of the Trinity. 



Prayer should be offered to Christ for His own dear sake, 
Then the idea of your thought the Unity does not break; 
If you will quit thinking of the Divine One as three, 
The devil will cease making his abode in thee. 



Praying to an invisible Divine one, 

For the sake of the only begotten son 

Is not going through the door to the sheep fold. 

But another way your message to unfold. 



To approach the Father in any other way. 

Than by going through the Lord, is hurtful they say; 

The best plan, it seems, would surely be. 

To study the word and let it guide thee. 



The body and blood upon which we should feed, 
To grow spiritually minded indeed; 
Is not that body and blood from the mother. 
But the Divine good and truth from that other. 



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FROM DARKNEiSS TO LIGHT 



Philip had an idea there was another 
Divine, separate from our Elder Brother, 
And requested to be shown the Father too; 
The Lord's answer to him, should satisfy you. 

You will have to learn to think, God is one. 
Or very soon you will think there is none. 
If the mouth proclaims, God is one. 
Think it, or You will be all undone. 

Shun the evil inclined, bad company avoid. 

If you would firmly hold your faith and grace unalloyed; 

The evil and false in society is contageous and huge. 

Better is the true doctrine of Christ, the Holy City of refuge. 

**Is not one and the same essence, the same one?" 
Is not Infinite Love and Wisdom the son? 
His earthly tabernacle was made divine, 
To contain the Infinte One, for all time. 

This little book is sent as a little leaven. 

To help extend our Savior's Kingdom of Heaven; 

May these Heavenly thoughts, fall into much good ground, 

And lift the veil from many, that light may abound. 




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